Exclusive: AI critics funded AI coverage at top newsrooms

Exclusive: AI critics funded AI coverage at top newsrooms

The ScoopLast month, NBC News broke the news that the artificial intelligence behemoth OpenAI had quietly issued a series of legal threats against nonprofit organizations that have criticized it.OpenAI reacted with frustration — not with the reporting, but with who paid for it.The company privately complained to NBC News that the author of the story had been paid by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, as part of a fellowship program that embed…