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The Atlantic and Vox Media made their own deal with the AI Devil

The Atlantic and Vox Media are the two latest publishers to cut deals with OpenAI so that the AI giant can train itself on their content.

There are concerns from publishers that users of AI chatbots don't actually need to go to the original sources; perhaps the calculus is that, for an industry in the twilight of its lifespan, some inbound link traffic is better than none. More recently, eight publications owned by the Alden Capital Group, including the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News, sued both companies with a similar complaint. It was only last week The Atlantic published its own screed decrying media organizations which had taken petty cash from AI interlopers in exchange for something of significantly greater value.

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