Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them
Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @lolgop.bsky.social LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Kate Knibbs See also Mediagazer Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : We have a problem that high quality news is now behind paywalls while fake news and misinformation is free. — The new version of this problem is 88% of top US news sites block AI crawlers like ChatGPT but Breitbart does not. — Cue moral panic in a few months — https://www.wired.com/... Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : To be feared: 90% of legit news sites are blocking AI reading but right-wing sites are in there. Garbage in, garbage multiplied. — Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them — https://www.wired.com/... Bluesky: @lolgop.bsky.social : Wasn't AI-trained by reading Breitbart an old Joe Mande bit? [embedded post] LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski : You may have noticed that some chatbots are getting worse. This is why: over 88% of high-quality news sites now block web crawlers used … Kate Knibbs : A few weeks ago Tom Simonite and I were wondering how many news outlets were blocking AI crawlers. This story is the result of that conversation. … See also Mediagazer