New York FAIR News Act Would Require AI Firms to Pay Publishers for Training Data

Summary

New York State introduced the FAIR (Foundations for AI Revenue) News Act, which would require AI companies to pay publishers a licensing fee when their content is used in foundation model training data. The bill would apply retroactively to models already in production and requires audit trails proving which training corpora were used. If enacted, it would be the most aggressive state-level AI training data regulation in the U.S., and could set a precedent for other states. The bill faces signi