Apple will pay more than $50 million to use news archives owned by publishers to train its generative AI feature
Not all of the rumored news publishers are happy to have their archives used to train generative AI even if it means a big payday for them thanks to Apple. The Times says that the publishers rumored to be interested in a deal with Apple could be concerned about leaving themselves open to legal liability coming from Apple’s use of their content. Part of this reaction might stem from Apple being vague about its plans for AI moving forward.
Apple executives were reportedly trying to figure out how to obtain the data required for a generative AI product. One of the biggest flaws of AI is that some answers are completely made up and false. This is called a “hallucination” and Apple believes that by using news archives to train its AI it can offer a more reliable AI feature.
