The widespread phenomenon of ChatGPT has spread to the US workforce very quickly, and some employers such as Microsoft and Google have already restricted its use.
With legitimate concerns that current AI chatbot technology could cause significant harm to media publishers, media publishers are starting to take a closer look at whether or not it makes sense to integrate AI tools like ChatGPT into their day-to-day operations.
Earlier this month, The New York Times updated the Terms of Service to prevent the content from being used to train any machine learning system or AI models, such as ChatGPT, as initially reported by Adweek.
This includes using text, photos, audio/video clips, metadata, and/or any type of web crawler tools built to scrape, access, and/or collect NYT-based content that benefits either developing a software program that uses AI or updating the underlying infrastructures behind these AI-based algorithms.
The announcement also talked about digitizing the NYT archive of photos and clippings, as well as offering machine learning techniques to content moderators through the moderator system.
Publishers sign open letter calling on lawmakers to develop new policies
Other news outlets also announced earlier this month The associated press and the European Publishers Council called on global lawmakers in an open letter to create new policies that require copyright holder consent and transparency with public datasets before being used to train AI systems.
“The media industry has a history of embracing and successfully navigating new technology, from the introduction of the printing press to broadcast media to the Internet and social media,” the announcement reads in part, noting that “the pace of development and adoption of AI goes far beyond previous technological leaps, potentially at the expense of long-standing fundamental intellectual property rights, as well as creators’ investment in high-quality media content.”
Current signatories to the letter as well Gannett (USA Today Network), Getty Images, The Authors Guild, News Media Alliance, National Writers Union, National Press Photographers AssociationAnd Agence France-Presse.
NYT signs a $100 million deal with Google to showcase content
In February, the NYT and Google signed a $100 million deal that will allow Google to serve and showcase NYT content on a number of its platforms for the next three years, while working together to build tools that better reflect the way the content is served. distributed. marketed and advertised to consumers.
In July, Google updated its privacy policy with its AI-based programs Bard and Cloud AI, which it stated could be trained on public data the tech giant scrapes from the internet, as initially reported by Gizmodo.
That’s what a Google representative recently told me The edge that it has been transparent about its privacy practices using publicly available information from the open internet to train language models that help improve services like Google Translate, and that the recent update expands that notice to include Bard and other AI tools.
In a blog post, OpenAI acknowledged the potential misuse of its GPTBot, a new web crawling bot that allegedly collects publicly available data from websites while also avoiding paid and restricted content. It also shared that it now allows website operators to prevent its GPTBot web crawler from scraping data from their websites, including blocking the IP address.
A recent poll from Reuters surveyed 2,625 adults in the US between July 11 and 17, which found that 28% of respondents regularly used ChatGPT at work, while only 22% stated that their employers explicitly allowed the use of these AI-based tools.
On the other hand, about 10% of those surveyed said their employers had explicitly banned AI tools like ChatGPT, while 25% had no idea if their company allowed the use of that technology.