ChatGPT Users To Soon Get Access To News Content (Photo by Zac Wolff on Unsplash)
Amid the legal battle with The New York Times over copyright infringement, OpenAI has announced partnerships with two major international news organisations to bring news content to ChatGPT. As part of the partnership, ChatGPT users will be able to access French and Spanish news content from Le Monde and Prisa Media, along with its publications like El País, Cinco Días, As, and El Huffpost.
The AI giant mentioned in its blog post that the content from Le Monde and Prisa Media will also contribute to the training of AI models. Microsoft-backed OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can interact with relevant news content from these publishers in the coming months through select summaries with attribution and links to the original articles. The company also claimed that this would give users the ability to access additional information or articles from the news sites.
Brad Lightcap, COO of OpenAI, said that the company”s goal is to enable ChatGPT users to connect with the news in “new ways that are interactive and insightful.” It is worth mentioning that global news publisher Axel Springer and the Associated Press also signed deals with the AI startup in 2023.
“We”re dedicated to supporting journalism by applying new AI technologies and enhancing opportunities for content creators,” added Brad Lightcap. Carlos Nunez, Chairman and CEO of Prisa Media, said that leveraging the capabilities of ChatGPT helps them present their in-depth journalism in novel ways.
In January 2024, The Information reported that OpenAI offered between $1 million and $5 million a year to publishers to license copyrighted news articles as part of training its AI models. At the same time, The New York Times is in an intense legal battle with OpenAI. The publisher filed a lawsuit in December, which claims that OpenAI is using millions of the newspaper’s articles without permission to help train the chatbots. OpenAI has recently responded to this lawsuit and alleged that the New York Times “paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products.”
