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AI firms and paying for content revisited
A leading figure in the AI revolution has been revealed to understand the true value of the content such systems are trained on. His words could haunt…
Feb 12
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Rob Corbidge
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Opinion: All this talk of AI visibility is killing your news business
SEO mastermind Steven Wilson-Beales takes over Content Aware to make the case that focusing too much on questions around AI search visibility is masking…
Feb 5
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Steven Wilson-Beales
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Skills, shills, and poison pills - the UK's confusion over AI and IP masks actual good news
Beware the AI-company experts when considering issues around AI and copyright. One arm of the UK government recognises this, while another is trying not…
Jan 29
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Rob Corbidge
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Content will be judged by quality not volume - but no-one has told AI
May 8, 2025
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Rob Corbidge
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A copyright madness in the UK has been defeated - but only for now
Feb 6, 2025
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Rob Corbidge
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Microsoft breaks dam on AI cash-for-content
Sep 25, 2025
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Rob Corbidge
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Peering into the crystal ball of AI, the media, and the future
Aug 29, 2024
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Richard Fairbairn
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How to confound AI crawlers? Feed them on a diet of their own work
Jun 26, 2025
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Rob Corbidge
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Courthouse shock: Google 0, Publishing 1
Oct 30, 2025
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Rob Corbidge
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AI and slop: do they mean the content or the investment?
A degree of rationality is taking hold over the uses and limitations of AI systems as slop content helps erode the sheen of the new.
Jan 22
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Rob Corbidge
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The copyright circus and the theatrics of policy vs law
Watching a UK government committee question AI industry figures on content and copyright yielded some enlightening moments, and not necessarily for the…
Jan 15
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Rob Corbidge
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Is 2026 a transformative year for copyright?
As the LLM transformation magic fails to work on Harry Potter, are The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the vanguard of a counter-cultural copyright…
Jan 8
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Rob Corbidge
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Is OpenAI's latest acquisition good politics for us or them?
An ex-UK political heavy is now the chief negotiator-diplomat for Open AI's global push to reshape its corporate face outside the USA. Where pragmatism…
Dec 18, 2025
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Rob Corbidge
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Competition in AI is spurring big players to think again about the role media and content can play in their success
No matter the cost of the pen, it still needs ink and something to write about. The next big AI payday could be playing right into media's hands.
Dec 11, 2025
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Rob Corbidge
A damaging government leak exposes the real cost of budget tools in critical publishing roles
When a government body accidentally leaks market-sensitive data, the instinct is to blame human error - but what if the real culprit is the technology…
Dec 4, 2025
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Denis Haman
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Why hyper-personalisation could undermine the authority publishers rely on
In attempting to give people what they want, could we lose the curatorial function of news gathering?
Nov 27, 2025
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Rob Corbidge
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Listening to Google: bitter pills, and hard-to-hear truths
A rare chance to hear a voice from within Google who is sympathetic to publishers - just don't assume it will be what you want to hear
Nov 20, 2025
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Rob Corbidge
Slop until we drop? Not for discerning minds
There's more AI-made content than there is human-made. Is this the death of the web, or a tipping point where the AI-internet eats itself and lets a new…
Nov 13, 2025
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Rob Corbidge
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