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Media executives urge Congress to enact legislation to prevent AI models from training on ‘stolen goods’ | CNN Business
A group of media executives urged lawmakers on Wednesday to enact new legislation that would force artificial intelligence developers to pay publishers for use of their content to train their computer models.
The hearing before the US Senate comes after a blitz of new AI chatbots, most notably OpenAI’s ChatGPT, set off a wave of existential panic among media organizations, threatening to further upend the business, which has slashed thousands of jobs in recent years. Roger Lynch, Condé Nast’s chief executive, told senators that current AI models were built using “stolen goods,” with chatbots scraping and displaying news articles from publishers without their permission or compensation. Curtis LeGeyt, president and chief executive for the National Association of Broadcasters, noted that local personalities rely on the trust of their audiences, which could be undermined by the use of AI with the creation of so-called deepfakes and misinformation.
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