People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel—whose firm’s titles include People and Food & Wine—said other big AI firms are paying publishers to use their content, but that Google has so far refused.
“Some AI shops are good actors. OpenAI is a good guy,” said Vogel. “The worst guy is Google.”
Vogel made his comments during an onstage panel discussion about the future of digital media in the new AI-driven internet. The comments come as media and news publishers are squaring off with AI companies at the deal table and in the courtroom.
The New York Times has sued OpenAI, alleging that it trained its chatbots on its content without permission or payment. OpenAI has called the suit baseless.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, who was also on Wednesday’s Brainstorm panel, said it has become far harder for websites to attract traffic at a time when AI firms serve as “answer engines” that provide what people are looking for in quick snippets.
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