OpenAI warns UK lawmakers the future relies on them stealing news

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OpenAI has donned a scarf and headed to wintry London this week to cry poor, moaning to UK politicians that being mean to them will doom the development of artificial intelligence.

They want British lawmakers to let them override copyright, so they have free rein to use publisher content to keep building ChatGPT.

Without legal immunity, they cannot use anything and everything without permission, and that would make it “impossible” to keep building the future, they whinged.

The UK Telegraph helpfully pointed out that the begging approach came on the heels of investment talks valuing Sam Altman’s behemoth at $100 billion.

How copyright has become AI’s Voldemort

Until this week, the Microsoft-controlled rocketship OpenAI has steadfastly avoided talking about what publishers consider the greatest IP theft in history.

With good reason. Why poke the tiger?

But ever since The New York Times called BS and issued a fat writ, they haven’t shut up about it, even turning their hand to writing a blog def…