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Platformer / Casey Newton and Zoe Schiffer
/ May 1, 2024“Recent events suggest [publishers] have less leverage over OpenAI, Google, and other LLM makers than they might hope — and that when they look back on this time in the years ahead, they may wish they had put their attention elsewhere. Because while they negotiate, another version of the internet is already under construction. It’s a place where visiting websites is a thing of the past, and browsers and AI companies team up to give people everything the broader internet used to without ever having to leave their walled gardens. A relatively small number of deals may offer a trickle of revenue to publishers, even as the products themselves introduce huge disruptions into how news is distributed and consumed.” —
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AI licensing,
licensing,
licensing content,
OpenAI
