OpenAI to pay Politico parent for using its content

AI companies pay media companies for content to train their LLMs on.

Media companies use LLMs to generate more content.

What do we do once all the pre-LLM original content on the internet has been used up?

It's an interesting problem that I don't know how's going to be solved longterm: a person can read a website and learn from it, but an AI can't? I sympathize with the arguments from both sides. One downside I see with the money route is that it is another moat for the big guys doing AI.

> a person can read a website and learn from it, but an AI can't

I personally think this framing creates a false problem by anthropomorphizing the technology. Neural network weights aren’t people; they are a mathematically transformed copy of the training data.

What about the other publishers whose content was used to train the model?

If interested, News Corp. is discussing this more broadly, too: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/new...

Happy to see publishers getting paid! But definitely unsure what this means for society long-term.

Axel Springer is German Fox News. This is very bad news unless you want Tay 2.0