AI sets off a scramble for data
Editorial
The Economist
Fast-developing artificial-intelligence (AI) tools rely on “oodles” of data, says The Economist. Having “already helped themselves to much of the internet”, often without permission from copyright holders, AI firms are now “seeking out new data sources to sustain the feeding frenzy”. Companies with “vast troves of the stuff” are “weighing up how best to profit from it”. The result has been a “flurry” of dealmaking. In July, OpenAI “inked a deal” with Associated Press to