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Nearly every week, I see newspapers and magazines that seemed fine suddenly going out of business. Or a private equity fund buying up a chain of newspapers that had been serving communities for decades and stripping them for parts. And now, the thing that’s making all publishers wring their hands is AI – publishers are seeing massive drops to their web visits as AI scrapes their content and delivers it up to people in chatbots, with the journalists who did the original work not even credited with the work.

Despite this, I have hope for journalism because of what’s happening at The Tyee.

Years ago, we made a strategic bet that support from our readers was going to drive our whole future. And thankfully, that is working for us.

Over the past decade, we’ve more than doubled our journalism team and are publishing more work than ever. More people read The Tyee now than at any point in our 23-year history.

This is only possible because we regularly ask our readers to sign up as paying Tyee Builder members. Roughly half of our entire budget is made up of contributions from over 10,000 readers.

We’ve been doing more as our resources have grown. A weekend culture section filled with original essays. Hard-hitting investigative journalism in Alberta. A brand new biodiversity beat. A reporting project called Reality Check, focusing on misinformation and online radicalization. A flagship podcast.

Our model is simple: if more of our readers sign up to support The Tyee, we can keep up with rising costs and keep adding more talented journalists to our roster and set them loose on uncovering truths that would otherwise not see the light of day.

That’s why we’re launching a spring member drive to sign up 650 new or upgraded recurring Tyee Builder members (that’s monthly or annual) by midnight on Monday, June 15.

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Should There Be More Regulations on Big Tech?

Revelations that OpenAI knew about concerning activity from the Tumbler Ridge shooter but did not alert law enforcement have renewed calls for regulating technology companies which have an outsized influence on society.

Many tech companies training large language models are already embroiled in copyright lawsuits. Grok, the artificial intelligence on Elon Musk’s X, is notorious for having generated sexualized “deep fakes” of women and children. Conspiracies are also known to spread widely on the site.

U.S. companies dominate the Canadian tech market, and own and control much of Canadian’s data, posing a threat to Canada’s data sovereignty.

Previous attempts at regulation have faced obstacles. Three years on, access to news for Canadians is still banned on Facebook and Instagram since the federal government passed law to make tech giants like Meta and Google pay Canadian news organizations for the content they provide.

With this in mind, we want to ask:

Should there be more regulations on big tech?

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Please note that Tyee Barometer polls are only intended as a quick and engaging non-scientific snapshot of our readers' opinions on various topics that fit with The Tyee's very broad editorial mandate. They are not intended to be seen as a representative sampling of BC opinion.

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