“Our profession was too discreet, too passive, and too divided in the face of the abuses committed by companies that are causing the artificial intelligence revolution,” said the president and director of the prestigious newspaper The New York Times, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, at the 77th meeting of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), in the French city of Marseille.
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AI companies are carrying out “a ruthless theft of intellectual property on an unprecedented scale,” he warned.
In his opinion, these companies have “excessive control over our data and our attention,” but “do not fulfill a fundamental responsibility that stems from that power: to guarantee the public access to reliable information and news.”
“Tech giants plunder news sites without authorization or compensation. They appropriate that stolen content as if they were its authors, thus diverting the audience and revenue” from news sites, he insisted.
“We are heading towards a future in which there will be fewer and fewer journalists to carry out the costly and difficult work that investigative reporting represents,” Sulzberger continued.
This congress, which runs until Wednesday, takes place in a context of concern about the economic model of the press, under strong pressure from artificial intelligence and facing increasing competition from social networks.
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