The Latest AI Tech Wouldn't Be Possible Without a Key Contributor: You
Some tech and media companies are beginning to ask for payment for the content created by millions of people, without their consent.
Illustration: Evangeline Gallagher
You may have contributed to the creation of the latest generation in artificial intelligence if you've published a blog or shared something on Reddit or anywhere else.
Google's Bard bot, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's OpenAI version of Bing and similar tools by the many startups now incorporating AI language models, none of these clever automated authors could exist without an enormous amount of freely available text on the internet.