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Senators debate local journalism and AI’s effect on community news; sponsor to convene stakeholder work group
Summary
Committee members discussed a bill about local journalism and the use of content by AI and aggregators; sponsor Senator Pham described lost traffic and revenue when content is scraped and packaged, and the committee agreed to continue work and form a stakeholder work group to develop solutions.
Committee members held an extended discussion about protecting local journalism and the implications of automated aggregation and AI for community news.
Senator Pham, sponsor of the related bill, described how the information landscape has shifted since 2022: "...there's always this... AI overview of whatever it is I'm looking for... aggregated content... scraped from other sources and repackaged," she said,…
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