Comment by subroutine
1 month ago
> The publishers say that their industry is bleeding out while they wait for a deal that may never come.
If your industry cannot sustain itself without checks from tech companies for using content as LLM training data that is quite a precarious situation. What was the economic situation for the news industry in Denmark prior to 2021?
This reads like they are trying to force American tech companies to subsidize their local news and journalism industries.
The question is, if they want it so bad, why don't they just establish a state fund for news and journalism so they can subsidize it themselves?
It honestly just feels like a shakedown.
And they created a powerful cartel which can pressure politicians to benefit the cartel: