A mighty army of mums is mobilising against OpenAI

A UK parenting community has become the first UK publisher to prosecute Microsoft's AI for scraping its six-billion-word archive...

An international feel to new subs over the past few days, with new arrivals from the Harvard Business Review, German public broadcaster MDR, Hungarian media giant Central Mediacsoport Zrt, and Britain’s Copyright Licensing Agency and NLA Media Access, which manages rights for 200,000 media companies. Welcome all.

They say mum’s the word, and that’s worked for AI by and large up to now, as it’s silently and secretly sucked up the world’s information, only…

We’re about to find out what happens when a community of nine million mums who have made successive Prime Ministers quake, decide to take on Big Tech.

Mumsnet is the most influential parenting network in Britain, and it’s been actively engaged in influencing and setting Government policy on big issues for two decades.

That’s why CEO Justine Roberts approached OpenAI. She felt Chat-GPT was overly reliant on male content for training and was parroting what men thought.

So, she offered her six-billion-word archive and consumer data coll…