Technology has threatened many creative industries in the past, and as generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more widespread, these issues have resurfaced: not only fears that generative AI might diminish creators’ work opportunities, but also intellectual property concerns about the data companies use to train generative AI products. Content creators’ work has been used or “scraped” without permission and without compensation. For journalists, whose work is copyrighted but often publicly available, this is a particular problem, especially because facts underlying news reports are not copyrightable. Given the press’s unique societal role, any distortion of news through generative AI could have implications far beyond copyright infringement.