Over the last four decades, journalism has been through the wringer. Newsrooms have lost tens of thousands of jobs, and two-thirds of newsrooms in the US have closed their doors. But if AI companies stay in the way—if a chatbot gives you information without telling you where it’s from or where you can find it—then we have no way to reach readers.
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That’s why we’re suing OpenAI for stealing our content—and reporting relentlessly on the ways these companies steamroll communities and cover up the dangers of their products. We are fighting for our existence and for the public’s right to know what these powerful players are doing.
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