"More precisely, he went to argue that facts can still be owned. That argument now sits at the center of a much larger conflict. AI systems are already trained on journalism. They increasingly function as information sources themselves. That creates a problem. If the business model for producing original reporting collapses, what reliable information will future AI systems train on? Sulzberger believes that question has an answer: legal enforcement of intellectual property rights. Silicon Valley disagrees."
"Sulzberger is the publisher of the New York Times and the fifth generation of his family to run it. He was speaking at Stanford's business school, in the middle of Silicon Valley, to an audience of future executives, investors, and technologists. This is where large language models are built and scaled. This is where information is treated less as property and more as input."
"(The full video of his interview can be viewed on YouTube.) Our message is we just need to keep our head down and just keep doing the work, Sulzberger said. Follow the facts where they lead, approach every story with an open mind, an empty notebook, and be completely unafraid to push through the pressure that we're gonna get from powerful forces to bring that to the public."
Facts can be owned and legal enforcement of news organizations' intellectual property can preserve original reporting as a public-trust infrastructure. AI systems are already trained on journalism and increasingly function as information sources, creating a risk that degrading business models for reporting will reduce the quality of future AI training data. Silicon Valley treats information as input rather than property, producing divergent incentives. Platforms shape attention, capital shapes incentives, and AI systems demand vast volumes of reliable information. Sustaining original reporting will require protecting the economic model that funds investigative work and preserving the trust that reporting underwrites across politics, markets, and public life.
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