"Barry Diller Calls for Redefining Fair Use in WGA Deal to Tackle AI Challenges"

Media mogul Barry Diller criticized the Writers Guild of America's tentative labor deal with Hollywood studios, calling for a redefinition of fair use to protect published material from being captured in artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge-bases. Diller argued that AI's indexing of entire bodies of work violates fair use and undermines copyright law. His remarks followed lawsuits by prominent authors against OpenAI for copyright infringement. Diller also disagreed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on fair use, stating that taking all of a publisher's work is not permissible. The details of the WGA's agreement with studios have not been made public, but it is expected to grant studios the right to use and train AI models using writers' work while ensuring compensation for writers.