What Next TBD: Why the New York Times Sued OpenAI

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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If A.I. and chatbots are the next wave of innovation, then the New York Times and other media organizations are determined to get paid this time. Guest: Megan Morrone, a tech editor at Axios If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
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0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
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0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:34.5	Just days before the new year, the New York Times sued Open AI and Microsoft.
0:40.2	Why?
0:41.2	Well, they wanted money for their work.
0:45.8	That's Megan Maroni.
0:47.2	I work with her over at Axios, where she's a tech editor on our AI Plus newsletter.
0:52.3	Recently, she wrote that 2024 will test not only the development of AI, but also the limits
0:58.5	of copyright law, and the news business.
1:01.5	And the New York Times case sets up the stakes.
1:04.3	Before filing suit, the paper was in talks with OpenAI over a deal that would let the
1:08.7	company use the Times content to train its models.
1:12.5	Open AI has been doing these kinds of deals with other publishers, like the Associated Press.
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