Publishers are done asking nicely

After years of lawsuits, licensing deals, and ignored robots.txt files, the media industry is trying something new: banding together.

Nothing says AI has gone mainstream quite like the organized backlash forming against it. A coalition of major publishers—the BBC, the Financial Times, the Guardian, and others—recently launched a group called SPUR to collectively negotiate with AI companies over content scraping. Could this the long-awaited collective action that the media has dreamed …