A bit of greater than a 12 months 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 mentioned, to “completely instigate litigation” in opposition to the tech corporations making an attempt to “scrape our content material” and “cannibalize every little thing.”
“If all of the world’s info is ready to be sucked up on this maw, after which primarily repackaged … there shall be no publishing,” he warned at a media convention in April final 12 months.