It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between AI companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has already scored one clear win, though: Its web crawlers aren’t getting blocked by top news outlets at the rate they once were. The generative AI boom sparked a gold rush for data—and a subsequent data-protection rush (for most news websites, anyway) in which publishers sought to block AI crawlers and prevent their work from becoming training data without consent.
Source: The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down
Similar to Perplexity, ProRata’s answer engine will cite its sources, but takes a slightly different approach. Built on Meta’s Llama as its foundational large language model, ProRata’s search will only perform retrieval-augmented generation on content that it has licensed. ProRata’s answer engine also uses proprietary attribution algorithms designed to calculate how much any given publisher’s content contributed to an answer.
The IFRRO general assembly this week has been comprised of 150 members from 80 nations, and from that plenary, the organization has issued a statement that calls the recommendations of Access Copyright and Copibec, an ”initiative intended “to restore a viable market for the reproduction of copyrighted works in the Canadian educational environment, in line with international copyright commitments.”
Novelist Christopher Farnsworth has filed a proposed class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab accusing the tech giant of misusing his books and others to train its Llama artificial-intelligence large language model. Farnsworth said in the lawsuit, opens new tab on Tuesday that Meta fed Llama, which powers its AI chatbots, thousands of pirated books to teach it how to respond to human prompts.
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, sees the technology as a way to accelerate the work of Hollywood moviemakers and online creators. Like OpenAI, it has started testing the technology with a small group of professionals. Though many believe the technology could speed the work of seasoned moviemakers, it could also replace less experienced digital artists.
Despite decades of infighting and years of false starts, the members of Pink Floyd have agreed to sell music rights to Sony Music for $400 million. The deal apparently has finally concluded despite decades of ongoing infighting and bitter words between the bandmembers, notably chief songwriters Roger Waters and David Gilmour. The deal comprises recorded-music rights but not songwriting, which is held by the individual writers, as well as name-and-likeness, which includes merchandise, theatrical and similar rights.