Newspapers want payment for articles used to power ChatGPT

Until now, the only free and easy part had been the data. Widely used services like the nonprofit Common Crawl charge Google, Meta, OpenAI and others nothing to use its service, which crawls the internet in search of troves of online text and archives the information for others to download. To assemble the vast quantities of natural language and specialized information needed to train large AI systems, tech companies have combined those archives with online data sets, accessing information made available for research purposes, and increasingly straying from information clearly in the public domain.