AI boom can't be built on stolen content - AFR

Policy Economy The AFR View Print article Sep 18, 2026 – 6.32pm If there was ever an industry that suffered from corporate dissonance it would be big tech. The latest example is Silicon Valley’s vociferous defence of the questionable practice of scraping copyrighted material to train their artificial intelligence models. Privately, however, insiders in the tech sector find it harder to reconcile this argument. That is no more obvious than in The New York Times ’ ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement for using millions of news stories to train their AI systems. Loading... Save Log in or Subscribe to save article Share Copy link Copied Email LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Copy link Copied Share via... Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe now Already a subscriber? Login License article Read More The AFR View Opinion AI Fetching latest articles