It’s a moment some publishers consider the most disruptive change they’ve seen to their industry since the dawn of the internet. Two publisher sources told Insider they think litigation is likely if not inevitable. Media companies could make the case that bots scraping their content violates their terms of service. Publishers would say it’s derived entirely from their information, and that if the bots destroy their business, the AI won’t have any high-quality news left to learn from.
Source: Big media is gearing up for battle with Google and Microsoft over AI chatbots
