Amazon Discusses AI Content Marketplace With Publishers

Amazon has indicated to publishing industry executives that it is planning to launch a marketplace where publishers can sell their content to firms offering AI products, according to two people who spoke with Amazon about the project.

Those discussions come as publishers and AI companies are battling to set terms over how AI firms can access online content, either for training models or for answering queries from users. Publishers have been pushing for payments that scale up the more their content is used. Last week, Microsoft rolled out a service connecting publishers with AI buyers.