Trump Tirade Makes It Clear: Publishers Are on Their Own in the AI Fight
As AI companies grapple with how to securely scale their models without alienating a public that's grown weary of data center creep, job loss, and the overall flattening of language, President Donald Trump has a message for frontier labs: Don't take your foot off the gas. His reluctance to regulate AI, however, could be bad news for publishers trying to get these companies to pay up.“We could put guardrails. We can do this and that," Trump said this weekend.
- ▪As AI companies grapple with how to securely scale their models without alienating a public that's grown weary of data center creep, job loss, and the overall flattening of language, President Donald Trump has a message for frontier labs: D
- ▪His reluctance to regulate AI, however, could be bad news for publishers trying to get these companies to pay up.“We could put guardrails.
- ▪We can do this and that," Trump said this weekend.
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| Original publisher | PCMag |
| Canonical URL | https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-tirade-makes-it-clear-publishers-are-on-their-own-in-the-ai-fight |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 26 18:43:58 +0000 |
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As AI companies grapple with how to securely scale their models without alienating a public that's grown weary of data center creep, job loss, and the overall flattening of language, President Donald Trump has a message for frontier labs: Don't take your foot off the gas. His reluctance to regulate AI, however, could be bad news for publishers trying to get these companies to pay up.“We could put guardrails. We can do this and that," Trump said this weekend. "But I think you have a lot of very negative forces that are...bringing up things that won’t happen."He later went full throttle on Truth Social, posting a series of diatribes that likened concerns about AI killing us all to the investigation into his first presidential campaign's ties to Russia and climate change.
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