The Verge – “Hundreds of publishers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Verge parent company Vox Media, are running an ad campaign this week urging the government to protect content from AI. The campaign, called Support Responsible AI, is run by the News/Media Alliance trade association and consists of several ads that will appear in print and online. Each ad has phrases like, “Keep Watch On AI,” “Stop AI Theft,” and “AI Steals From You Too,” while the text on the bottom reads: “Stealing is un-American. Tell Washington to make Big Tech pay for the content it takes.” The campaign comes just weeks after OpenAI and Google wrote letters to the government, urging it to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted content. The ad also contains a link and a QR code that leads to the Support Responsible AI page, where it prompts users to contact their local representatives about requiring Big Tech companies to fairly compensate writers, artists, and journalists for their work. It calls for the government to mandate attribution in AI-generated content as well…”

• See also The New Yorker [no paywall] – Will A.I. Save the News? Artificial intelligence could hollow out the media business—but it also has the power to enhance journalism…Certainly, change is coming. Artificial intelligence is already disrupting the ways we create, disseminate, and experience the news, on both the demand and the supply sides. A.I. summarizes news so that you can read less of it; it can also be used to produce news content. Today, for instance, Google decides when it will show you an “A.I. overview” that pulls information from news stories, along with links to the source material. On the science-and-tech podcast “Discovery Daily,” a stand-alone news product published by the A.I.-search firm Perplexity, A.I. voices read a computer-generated script…”
• See also Poynter – Audiences are still skeptical about generative AI in the news. Wide-ranging research from Poynter and the University of Minnesota sheds light on how people feel about AI in journalism. It’s not pretty.