Journalism's War Against AI

The New York Times vs. OpenAI spat is pointing to a new era in the aggregation wars.

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In the early years of the digitization boom, book publishers sue Google for making something that made perfect sense — at least on paper: Google Books. The publishers’ objection to the tool was simple: Google was digitizing their titles and offering it up under their search tools. There were guardrails in place to prevent people from…