Your Favorite News Sites Just Got Sold to Facebook's AI for $150 Million

If you read news from The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, or any News Corp outlet, your reading habits are about to fuel Facebook's AI.

News Corp just signed a three-year, $150 million deal with Meta. The agreement lets Facebook and Instagram's parent company scrape every article from News Corp's U.S. and UK publications to train their AI systems.

The company's CEO Robert Thomson didn't hide what this means. He called News Corp an "AI input company" now. Translation: they make content, AI companies pay to eat it.

Thompson says he talks regularly with both OpenAI's Sam Altman and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. These deals are becoming the new normal in media.

What does this mean for you? The news you read is becoming training data. Every article, every headline, every story gets fed into AI systems that will eventually compete with the journalists who wrote them.

Some people think this is smart business. Others think it's media companies selling the rope that will hang them.

Either way, $150 million buys a lot of content, and News Corp just handed over the keys.

As reported by The Guardian.

Source: The Guardian