Slightly greater than a yr in the past, Barry Diller rallied his fellow media titans to battle synthetic intelligence’s march on the publishing enterprise. The time had come, he stated, to “completely instigate litigation” in opposition to the tech firms attempting to “scrape our content material” and “cannibalize all the pieces.”
“If all of the world’s info is ready to be sucked up on this maw, after which basically repackaged … there can be no publishing,” he warned at a media convention in April final yr.