What’s behind Axel Springer’s deal with OpenAI?

To explain why a very powerful editor At the global media gig, as the Springer group signed a deal with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, to let it use its content in training artificial intelligence models, we should reclaim that old classic adage of probabilistic strategy: “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.”. The issue is not trivial, as Springer distances itself from the open war that much of the world’s press and other content creators are still waging over the use of copyrighted materials in graduate education. When an old dog Mathias Döpfner Whatever the reason for making this move, it is because he realizes this. IA Act European Union imposing (relative) obligations on owners of large models Generative AI This could be an endless legal battle to uncover what protected content they were trained with (the argument from major AI companies that see no crime in this use is that they use lawyers from the world’s top law firms: here’s an example). Döpfner is the CEO and owner of 22% of the shares of the Springer store established in Germany. Bild Zeitung or Die Welt but after it spread to the USA through acquisitions Business insider information And Political The sun doesn’t set anymore, thirty years ago he was one of the first names in the world to make it clear that the future of media will or will not be digital. The sense of smell was infallible at the time, so this current claim needs to be taken into account. A challenge that certainly has to do with the emergence of AGI (Generative Artificial Intelligence) increasingly usurping Google Their hegemonic role in regulating content on the Internet is slowly turning into original search engines. They will have thought it preferable to feature in ChatGPT replies on Springer, citations to their media will now be mandatory for AI. Sam Altman With this agreement, we must continue to be at the mercy of Google and its unstable course in recent months, which has decimated the audience of many media and caused losses of millions of dollars.

Google urgently needs to change to catch up with its rivals in the use of Artificial Intelligence

Google’s deviation is more than justified. stress test That’s the situation ChatGPT has been exposed to since launching its AI more than a year ago. It has long been no secret that Google’s “SERP” system, the results pages that its algorithm returns for every search, is clearly a model in decline. According to experts, the transformation may also come to an end holy website optimization system woven around SEO Ranking as high as possible in these searches not only gave power to the Mountain View search engine, but also brought money and traffic to those who skillfully used it. However, Google may be behind in the artificial intelligence business, but it is not blind. Rapid changes in its essence algorithm The search engine’s sheer number of search results in the last five months, and as in the previous five years, shows that Alphabet is already “dancing,” as the Microsoft CEO said: Satya Nadellaand does not want to be left behind in this race (some are already estimating possible losses from not leading the deployment of AI at $30 billion). Hence the brutal backlash against a system that has given it world leadership and generated hundreds of billions of dollars in profits. But all this is now at risk, so as soon as the “big G” launches the Gemini-powered Bard into its latest and apparently brutal LLM, the Google search page will no longer be the same, and its new system, Seek Productive Experience (SGE) will be implemented in all its rudeness. Generative AI will allow you to first discard links to results, then create a summary that can make referencing other links unnecessary and then personalize your search resultsa is based on profiles it has accumulated over years of studying the way we navigate (what the European Artificial Intelligence Act now wants to control). In this new “Googelian” paradigm, a website’s authority will depend on the loyalty of its users, not on its Google ranking as it has been until now. More than a search engine, Meta will resemble a social network like Facebook or Instagram; It’s something it’s already been testing with Discover, its controversial topic and news recommendations service for Android phones, for several years. All of these It’s structuring a drastic change in the internet’s status quoFor the purpose of SEO as we know it so far the good news of online marketing and therefore the decrease in the number of millionaire viewers coming to those who implemented this optimization from remote regions that generate so much income from programmatic advertising, it is not known whether it is exact or not. To make Google happy. Something that keeps you up at night in most of the media.

On the other hand, Springer’s action cannot hide this. OpenAI also needed to clear the dark clouds on the horizon in two senses. Firstly, to minimize the possible drain of judicial resources (here you can see a sample of the cases it has received in the US alone), and secondly, to prevent more and more doors from being closed to content providers. AIs still need billions of data to continue training their models, and that was becoming more difficult for Sam Altman’s team lately. Since GPTBot was released last August, a browser that “whitens” input For the brave on sites that offer owners the ability to block access (I “scraped” before giving this option (scraping) took down websites ruthlessly and everything in its path without anyone knowing), more and more people are slamming the door. Although now they politely call OpenAI a “browser” They already say no 30% of the top 1000 websites in the world by traffic, most of them media. Blockade expanded to include robots Common Browsing, the necessary collaborator who apparently opened the doors to 100 million websites for Altman; Google-ExtendedAlphabet’s artificial intelligence “robot” and anthropic, the indefatigable AI “scanner” “Claude,” written by the Amodei brothers, former OpenAI members who receive money from Google and Amazon for their projects. On the other hand, it is not strange that Google has four times fewer closed doors than OpenAI on this list of “unwanted followers”. Google Extended, the AI-specific robot, was announced just three months ago. This means that until three months ago it was supposed to be nerves of steel and the spirit of the green beret Closing the door of your website to the incomparable follower of the world leader with 90% of the search market, who with an invisible hand can drag you into great things or drag you into the most utter misery. The responsibility lies with him in both cases. Still today still scary.

In a chart from Originality.ai, a website dedicated to hunting down stolen content and identifying what AIs are doing, you can see how more and more doors are closing on AIs. Without data, we’ve said it here before, AI loses everything. The reaction was predictable, but There are still great resources on the internetIt is dominated by writers who are unaware of its current value and do not object to its use. All for the sake of artificial intelligence!


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