According to the CEO of News Corp Australia Michael Miller, developers of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered applications should pay for the news and material used by their platforms to enhance their products.
In an editorial published on April 2 in The Australian, Michael Miller urged “creators of original news and material” to avoid the mistakes of the past that “decimated their businesses” by permitting internet companies to benefit from using their stories and information without compensation.
Chatbots are software that consumes news, data, and other material to generate responses that mimic written or spoken human speech, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 chatbot being the most renowned.
According to Miller, the rapid emergence of generative AI is another drive-by big digital firms to create “a new pot of gold to maximize revenue and profit by stealing the intellectual content of others without compensating them for their original work.”
Miller asserted, using OpenAI as an example, that the corporation “quickly developed a $30 billion business” by “taking the others’ original content and innovation without compensation and acknowledgment.”
In 2021, the Australian federal government introduced the News Media Bargaining Code, which requires tech platforms in Australia to compensate news publishers for the news material they make accessible or link to.
Miller asserts that comparable legislation is required for AI to ensure that all content creators are reimbursed fairly for their efforts.
“Creators deserve to be rewarded for their original work being used by AI engines which are raiding the style and tone of not only journalists but (to name a few) musicians, authors, poets, historians, painters, filmmakers and photographers.”
More than 2,600 IT professionals and researchers recently signed an open letter calling for a temporary halt to the development of artificial intelligence (AI), citing “grave hazards to society and mankind.”
Meanwhile, Italy’s data protection agency issued a temporary shutdown of ChatGPT and launched an inquiry into alleged violations of data privacy regulations.
Miller believes that both content creators and AI businesses may benefit from the such agreement, as opposed to outright bans or restrictions on the technology.
With “appropriate safeguards,” he wrote, AI has the potential to become a valuable journalistic resource, as it can aid in creating content, “gather facts faster,” aid in publishing across multiple platforms, and speed up video production.
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Miller believes that the future success of AI engines is at risk if they cannot persuade the public that their information is trustworthy and credible, adding that “to accomplish this, they will need to compensate those who provide the foundation for their success fairly.”
