Somewhat 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 attempting to “scrape our content material” and “cannibalize every part.”
“If all of the world’s info is ready to be sucked up on this maw, after which basically repackaged … there shall be no publishing,” he warned at a media convention in April final 12 months.