"Tech giants strip-mine news websites without permission or compensation. They repackage these stolen goods as their own" -A.G. Sulzberger

Why Aren't Newsrooms Covering This AI Speech? | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/why-arnt-newsrooms-covering-this-ai-speech/

The Private Capture of Public Genius
https://www.wysr.xyz/p/the-private-capture-of-public-genius

>> The Times itself didn't report on the speech.

It reminds me of something someone argued with respect to the gerrymandering problem: basic game theory says that you start with cooperation, when the other side breaks the agreement, you retaliate with everything you have. When the return to norms, you forgive quickly and return to cooperation.

The analogy here would be to organize a mass media blockade of crawlers. Very few outlets can afford to do that, but some like the NYT are primarily subscription publications, not ad-driven, and have some cash on hand. Obviously, aside from the absolute giants, nobody can afford to block Google and Anthropic, but it's precisely the giants that Google and Anthropic want.

The problem is, like any good robber baron, the tech giants have enough cash and ability to raise money that they can outwait almost any media outlet.


I had never heard of the 1956 patent settlement. It seems like an event that should be part of History 101 for its implications.