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Business Insider joins AI lawsuit against Cohere

Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following to the staff on Thursday:

Team,

This morning, Business Insider — together with other publications in the News/Media Alliance — filed a lawsuit against Cohere, an AI company that has been taking and using our journalism without permission.

I have long shared that AI is both a fantastic opportunity and a significant threat. We can and do use this technology to innovate the way we work — through our onsite search, subscription paywall, and advertising targeting. But we cannot allow AI companies to infringe on our copyright and use our journalism in their products and services without a mutually-beneficial agreement in place.

This lawsuit is a step in the right direction to ensure a fair playing field for the licensed use of journalism and the sustainability of our industry.

Barbara

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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