Sir Keir Starmer has said that news organisations will be paid for allowing AI to use their work, as he promises “balance” in an emerging battle between big tech and the media.
The prime minister acknowledged that the emerging power of artificial intelligence could “chip away” at press freedom as he promised to defend journalism from the threat of technology giants.
Vowing to “champion press freedoms”, Starmer insisted that news and the wider creative industries were central to economic growth.
Increasingly powerful forms of AI rely on a vast data set of existing writing, images and music to train themselves to create lifelike responses, leading to battles over the terms on which they can use such content.
Technology companies are pushing a model under which