Newspaper blocks ChatGPT from content amid growing backlash against new tech

ChatGPT has proven it can help students with their homework, but now it is helping teachers create those very courses, a computer science professor told Fox News. The United Kingdom-based The Guardian newspaper announced that it was blocking ChatGPT owner OpenAI for being able to trawl content on its website. The Guardian announced in a report on its website last week that it is blocking OpenAI from using the paper's online content, citing concerns that its ChatGPT platform is "using unlicensed content to create its AI tools have led to writers bringing lawsuits against the company and creative industries calling for safeguards to protect their intellectual property." The move comes after OpenAI announced last month that it would enable websites to block the company's web crawler from accessing their content, with many online publishers joining The Guardian in choosing to block the crawler, according to the report. Other outlets listed as blocking the crawler, which uses information on websites to help generate AI content, include CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, Bloomberg, New York Times and The Athletic.