AI companies than blog and social-media posts. (Ziff Davis is suing OpenAI for training on its articles without paying a licensing fee.) Researchers at Microsoft have also written publicly about “the importance of high-quality data” and have suggested that textbook-style content may be particularly desirable.

If they want quality data then, don't kill them. Secondly, if they want us as gig workers providing content for AI, don't act surprised when people start feeding gibberish. It's already happening, llm are hallucinating a whole lot more than the earliest gpt 3 models. That means something, they just haven't thought about it long enough. If a reasoning model gets stuff wrong 30 to 50% of the time, with peak of 75% bullshit rate, it's worthless. Killing good journalism for this is so dumb.