He even demanded to be paid to have his newspapers indexed by search engines:
https://www.inquisitr.com/46786/epic-win-news-corp-likely-to-remove-content-from-google
No surprise that Murdoch sued an AI company over training on Newscorp content:
But Murdoch isn't opposed to the material he publishes being used in AI training, nor is he opposed to the use of models. Murdoch's Harpercollins is now pressuring its authors to sign away their rights to have their work used to train AI models:
https://bsky.app/profile/kibblesmith.com/post/3laz4ryav3k2w
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