Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on AI companies scraping all of Yahoo's content without permission:
“You will see the Yahoo brand show up all the time in citations there.”
“We are a top 20 publisher whose content has been taken by the large language models without permission.”
He says Yahoo built its new AI answer engine Yahoo Scout to excels at content that's real time so they aren’t as susceptible to the evergreen content that LLMs “photocopied and took with them.”