{"id":993581,"date":"2026-02-18T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993581"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:52:19","slug":"publishers-to-ai-companies-journalism-is-not-a-free-floating-internet-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/publishers-to-ai-companies-journalism-is-not-a-free-floating-internet-input\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishers to AI companies: Journalism is not a free-floating internet input"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalism is not \u201cfree-floating internet input\u201d for AI models to consume and is an essential \u201cdemocratic infrastructure\u201d that requires protection and payment, India\u2019s top media leaders declared in a powerful appeal to tech giants during a panel discussion on \u201cAI and Media: Opportunities, Responsible Pathways, and the Road Ahead\u201d convened by Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) at the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026, organised by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).<\/p>\n<p>The conversation was about whether journalism must be treated differently from other content in AI systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalism is not \u201cfree-floating internet input\u201d for AI models to consume and is an essential \u201cdemocratic infrastructure\u201d that requires protection and payment, India\u2019s top media leaders declared in a powerful appeal to tech giants during a panel discussion on \u201cAI and Media: Opportunities, Responsible Pathways, and the Road Ahead\u201d convened by Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) at the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026, organised by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The conversation was about whether journalism must be treated differently from other content in AI systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}