Somewhat greater than a yr in the past, Barry Diller rallied his fellow media titans to struggle synthetic intelligence’s march on the publishing enterprise. The time had come, he mentioned, to “completely instigate litigation” in opposition to the tech corporations making an attempt to “scrape our content material” and “cannibalize every thing.”
“If all of the world’s data is ready to be sucked up on this maw, after which primarily repackaged … there will likely be no publishing,” he warned at a media convention in April final yr.