With AI exploiting businesses’ data, when do we get paid and by whom?

LIKE most New Scientist readers, you are probably a human. But, increasingly, publications like ours have a new breed of artificially intelligent consumers – an apt word, because these AIs don’t so much read as they do ingest, gobbling up vast quantities of text as part of their training.

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