Here’s the deal: AI giants get to grab all your data unless you say they can’t. Fancy that? No, neither do I | Chris Stokel-Walker

A consultation is soon to open, the Financial Times reports, that will allow AI companies to scrape content from individuals and organisations unless they explicitly opt out of their data being used.

Data is vital to AI systems because it helps them to develop facsimiles of how we interact.

Tech companies know that, which is why they are penning licensing deals for content left, right and centre.

OpenAI a company now valued at more than $150bn is planning to forswear its founding non-profit principles to become a for-profit company.

It has more than enough money in its coffers to pay for training data, rather than rely on the public.

Companies like that can certainly afford to put their hands in their own pockets.