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News Corp continues to ‘woo and sue’ over content theft, but ups the tough talking

In the battle against the copyright marauders from the AI frontier, News Corp has been rightly robust in defending its IP corner. But CEO Robert Thomson is conscious that there are many battles ahead for content providers and is upping the ante when it comes to combative rhetoric:

Much of the world is being re-shaped by Artificial Intelligence, but Artificial Intelligence itself is only as useful, only as trustworthy as the quality and integrity of its inputs. We believe News Corp is an absolutely critical participant in the emerging information ecosystem.

Without our journalists, our authors, our data, our brands and our professional expertise, users will be drowning in a slimy sea of AI slop, a quadrant of content crap. That is why we remain dedicated to cultivating partnerships with those who have shown...

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‘If we don’t like it, we’ll kill it. If we love it, we’ll marry it’: We were dreaming about ChatGPT thousands of years before it existed — here's how ancient myths shaped the AI we’re building today

Whenever a new AI model is released in a cut-down form because it is too powerful, or one transgresses its sandbox and performs an unexpected cyber hack on a company’s website, we tend to see jokes made about Skynet or HAL 9000 becoming a reality. But science fiction didn’