OpenAI Strikes a Deal to License News Corp Content – The New York Times
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The deal gives OpenAI’s chatbots access to new and archived material from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, MarketWatch and Barron’s, among others.
News Corp, the Murdoch-owned empire of publications like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to a deal with OpenAI to share its content to train and service artificial intelligence chatbots.
News Corp said the multiyear agreement would allow OpenAI to use current and archived news content from News Corp’s major news outlets, including brands in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia as well as MarketWatch and Barron’s. The agreement does not include content from News Corp’s other businesses, such as its digital real estate services or HarperCollins.
“We believe an historic agreement will set new standards for veracity, for virtue and for value in the digital age,” Robert Thomson, the chief executive of News Corp, said in a statement. He described OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, as “principled partners” who “understand the commercial and social significance of journalists and journalism.”
Mr. Altman described the partnership as “a proud moment for journalism and technology.”
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Wall Street Journal reported the agreement could be worth as much as $250 million over five years, citing unnamed sources. A News Corp spokesman declined to comment on the reporting.
Tim Martell, a spokesman for the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, which represents workers at The Journal, said in a statement that the union was concerned that it had not reached an agreement on A.I. protections in its current contract negotiations before the OpenAI deal was announced.
Many publishers have worried about the threat to their business posed by generative A.I., which uses copyrighted content to train its models and service its chatbots. The use of A.I. to answer online search queries in particular has raised concerns that publishers are not being compensated for the use of their content to train chatbots that compete with them as a source of information.
In December, The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, accusing the tech companies of using millions of its news articles without authorization. OpenAI and Microsoft have sought to dismiss parts of the complaint. In April, eight daily newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.
Other publishers have sought to negotiate deals with the tech companies. OpenAI has already reached agreements with the German publishing giant Axel Springer, Dotdash Meredith, The Financial Times and The Associated Press, among others.
Katie Robertson covers the media industry for The Times. Email: katie.robertson@nytimes.com More about Katie Robertson
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The deal gives OpenAI’s chatbots access to new and archived material from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, MarketWatch and Barron’s, among others.
News Corp, the Murdoch-owned empire of publications like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to a deal with OpenAI to share its content to train and service artificial intelligence chatbots.
News Corp said the multiyear agreement would allow OpenAI to use current and archived news content from News Corp’s major news outlets, including brands in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia as well as MarketWatch and Barron’s. The agreement does not include content from News Corp’s other businesses, such as its digital real estate services or HarperCollins.
“We believe an historic agreement will set new standards for veracity, for virtue and for value in the digital age,” Robert Thomson, the chief executive of News Corp, said in a statement. He described OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, as “principled partners” who “understand the commercial and social significance of journalists and journalism.”
Mr. Altman described the partnership as “a proud moment for journalism and technology.”
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Wall Street Journal reported the agreement could be worth as much as $250 million over five years, citing unnamed sources. A News Corp spokesman declined to comment on the reporting.
Tim Martell, a spokesman for the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, which represents workers at The Journal, said in a statement that the union was concerned that it had not reached an agreement on A.I. protections in its current contract negotiations before the OpenAI deal was announced.
Many publishers have worried about the threat to their business posed by generative A.I., which uses copyrighted content to train its models and service its chatbots. The use of A.I. to answer online search queries in particular has raised concerns that publishers are not being compensated for the use of their content to train chatbots that compete with them as a source of information.
In December, The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, accusing the tech companies of using millions of its news articles without authorization. OpenAI and Microsoft have sought to dismiss parts of the complaint. In April, eight daily newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.
Other publishers have sought to negotiate deals with the tech companies. OpenAI has already reached agreements with the German publishing giant Axel Springer, Dotdash Meredith, The Financial Times and The Associated Press, among others.
Katie Robertson covers the media industry for The Times. Email: katie.robertson@nytimes.com More about Katie Robertson
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OpenAI said that it has begun training a new flagship A.I. model that would succeed the GPT-4 technology that drives its popular online chatbot, ChatGPT.
Elon Musk’s A.I. company, xAI, said that it had raised $6 billion, helping to close the funding gap with OpenAI, Anthropic and other rivals.
Google’s A.I. capabilities that answer people’s questions have generated a litany of untruths and errors — including recommending glue as part of a pizza recipe and the ingesting of rocks for nutrients — causing a furor online.
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After some trying years during which Mark Zuckerberg could do little right, many developers and technologists have embraced the Meta chief as their champion of “open-source” A.I.
D’Youville University in Buffalo had an A.I. robot speak at its commencement. Not everyone was happy about it.
A new program, backed by Cornell Tech, M.I.T. and U.C.L.A., helps prepare lower-income, Latina and Black female computing majors for A.I. careers.
Publishers have long worried that A.I.-generated answers on Google would drive readers away from their sites. They’re about to find out if those fears are warranted, our tech columnist writes.
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This article was autogenerated from a news feed from CDO TIMES selected high quality news and research sources. There was no editorial review conducted beyond that by CDO TIMES staff. Need help with any of the topics in our articles? Schedule your free CDO TIMES Tech Navigator call today to stay ahead of the curve and gain insider advantages to propel your business!
