Today, Apple is offering tens of millions to media companies for access to creative works in order to train models. These media companies require overbroad, one-sided contracts with creative workers that give them the power to sell their work to Apple:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/technology/apple-ai-news-publishers.html
Media companies aren't on their workers' side in just the same way that Amazon wasn't on publishers' side.
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