ChatGPT and AI must pay for the news it consumes: News Corp Australia CEO

The creators of artificial intelligence (AI) fuelled applications should pay for the news and content being used to improve their products according to the CEO of News Corp Australia. In an April 2 editorial in The Australian, Michael Miller called for "creators of original journalism and content" to avoid the past mistakes that "decimated their industries" which he claimed allowed tech companies to profit from using their stories and information without compensation. Chatbots are software that ingests news, data and other information to produce responses to queries that mimic written or spoken human speech, the most notable of which is the ChatGPT-4 chatbot by AI firm OpenAI. According to Miller, the rapid rise of generative AI represents another move by powerful digital companies to develop "a new pot of gold to maximize revenues and profit by taking the creative content of others without remunerating them for their original work." Using OpenAI as an example, Miller claimed the company "quickly established a business" worth $30 billion by "using the others' original content and creativity without remuneration and attribution."