The media bosses fighting back against AI — and the ones cutting deals

A little more than a year ago, Barry Diller rallied his fellow media titans to fight artificial intelligence’s march on the publishing business. The time had come, he said, to “absolutely instigate litigation” against the tech companies trying to “scrape our content” and “cannibalize everything.”

“If all the world’s information is able to be sucked up in this maw, and then essentially repackaged … there will be no publishing,” he warned at a media conference in April last year.