The New York Times has banned the use of its content to train generative artificial intelligence

The New York Times has updated its terms of use, which prohibit collecting company content to train machine learning or artificial intelligence systems.

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The updated terms state that automated content collection tools may not be used without written permission from the publication. Failure to comply with the restrictions could result in unspecified fines or penalties, the document says.

Despite introducing the new rules into its policy, the publication does not appear to have made any changes to robots.txt, the file that informs search engines what URLs can be accessed.

The move is likely in response to a recent update to Google's privacy policy. The search giant has said it may Google will collect all data from the public internet to train its artificial intelligence to train its various artificial intelligence services, such as Bard or Cloud AI.

Many of the large language models used are also trained on large data sets that may contain copyrighted material from the public internet. These are often collected without the permission of copyright holders.

Source: The Verge