AI companies stealing content | Arikia Millikan on author control | NYC
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0:00A: they’re managing their own ownership, and so they’re deciding what systems they want to be able to access their content. And so as we move into the agentic era, let’s go back to this. What does it look like? The authors can now control if they want agentic systems to be able to automatically access and purchase content from them, including if AI companies want to use assets for training, because up until this point, AI companies have largely just scraped the open web and stolen millions of journalistic assets.
