Canada's news publishers join forces to sue OpenAI

The Government, lawyers, and publishers big and small have come together in the biggest global effort yet to fix AI and reset the economics of news...

Canada’s publishers have made up their minds how to handle OpenAI stealing the internet. After mulling it over, they’ve decided not to play like News or Axel Springer.

No, they want pay. And they’ve decided exactly how much.

US$14,700.

Per article.

And they don’t want $14.7k for every article published by AI.

They want $14.7k for every article pinched by OpenAI to train ChatGPT.

That means this isn’t a deal. It’s a debt.

And to ensure they get their dollars, Canada’s publishers have looked past their historic rivalries and banded together.

They’ve created the bigger elephant that I’ve been advocating for more than a year.

And now they’re big, they’ve dropped a landmark damages suit, with a thud. And it’s HUGE, because that’s what bigger elephants can do.

Fortunately, OpenAI’s value has soared to US$157 billion, so it can afford it.

Form a line people…