Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training.
I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
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But I think she might've been onto something. Or we're both right
Like him or hate him, dim isn't the word.
Also shout out to corner shop boss man Raji who let me take the photo
https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2025/feb/14/guardian-media-group-announces-strategic-partnership-with-openai
It doesn't happen often.
Honestly, if you're shocked by British media groupthinking you're just revealing how little you understand about British media.
This advert appearing on all papers on the same day is something the relevant editors all knew was going to happen. It might be more oblique, but it's clearly an editorial decision.
I, too, had to unlearn my bias toward British media. I assumed it was astute on account of its acidity, and was too easily bowled over by the imprimatur of venerability.
Generative AI will eventually feed on itself and lead to entropy.
Both the training and use of AI need to be carefully considered. LLM AI training is mostly theft, and LLM AI use is mostly a "plausibility engine" - it sounds true, but frequently isn't.
This looks like media opportunism to me.
I am very much in favour of #makeitfair, but MSM supporting this in the face of their own wider failures reeks of irony.