The NY Times won't save news from AI, so how about this for a plan?

The publisher's much vaunted plan won’t work for anyone but the NY Times, and it won’t work for them for long. A smarter idea leads to a new partner...

The global news industry’s existential threat was created by the US, and now after 25-years of playing fast and loose with everyone’s future, it’s coming home.

The tech companies that broke the internet are built and run there. They have enjoyed 25 years of thriving above the law, because… well, America had to beat China.

Regulations and laws have been overridden and left so lax as to be useless, to enable growth at any cost. Fair use and Section 230 created a bubble the world is paying for.

And America’s belief in the almighty dollar has put cash before customer, money before mission, wealth before wisdom, and profit before people. Every time.

History will be a harsh judge of US exceptionalism, and the Big Tech it spawned, and this week it led two of its exponents into war, as The New York Times sued OpenAI.

As the story broke, I imagined a collective sigh of relief from global media boards. “Thank Heavens! The Times is on it. Let’s see what happens. The pressure is off us…”

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