A new column at CJR addresses ethical and legal questions about technology for journalists. A journalist asked whether to use AI like ChatGPT or Claude for headline writing, noting large language models have ingested "practically every headline ever published." However, the column warns that submitting unpublished work to an LLM raises "significant questions about how their intellectual property will be used" and "novel legal and security risks," as users have "no idea what happens" when they paste drafts into a chat box. The AI industry, "reportedly worth some three trillion dollars," was built on journalists' work "hoovered up without compensation or consent." An investigation by the Washington Post found "half of the top ten websites used in chatbot training data were news outlets." Anthropic tried to "destructively scan all the books in the world," slicing spines off millions of volumes for "tens of millions of dollars." A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, described this as "a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale." When AI companies ran out of words, one solution was "synthetic data," or "information generated by AI itself," which the column warned could create a "feedback loop to hell" as AI doubled down on its own biases and hallucinated.