The kings of AI thought they could take words for free. Nope. – Orlan…

There is no artificial intelligence without the vast trove of human knowledge.

Today’s generative AI applications were built on a foundation of such information, drawn from across the internet and from various databases totaling, according to at least one estimate, somewhere around 300 billion words.

Orlando Sentinel, seven other newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft

That’s a lot of information, and some of it — including public domain works and government records — should be free. But…