Nandini Roy Choudhury, writer
Brief news
- OpenAI has partnered with Condé Nast to display content from various outlets, including Vogue, The New Yorker, and Wired, through its products ChatGPT and SearchGPT.
- OpenAI is conducting tests on new search features that aim to provide faster and more reliable content sources and information.
- OpenAI has previously formed partnerships with Time magazine, News Corp., and Reddit to access and use their content for training AI models.
Detailed news
OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company backed by Microsoft, announced a partnership with Condé Nast on Tuesday. OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT and SearchGPT, will be able to display content from a variety of outlets, including Vogue, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Wired, Bon Appétit, and others.
In a blog post, OpenAI stated that they are currently conducting tests on new search features that will facilitate the quicker and more intuitive discovery of reliable content sources and information. This is achieved through the implementation of our SearchGPT prototype. “We’re combining our conversational models with information from the web to give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.”
OpenAI stated that the SearchGPT prototype provides direct access to news stories and that the company intends to “integrate the most advantageous of these features directly into ChatGPT in the future.”
It is the latest in a recent trend of some media outlets joining forces with AI startups such as OpenAI to engage into content agreements.
Following over a month of plagiarism allegations, Perplexity AI introduced a revenue-sharing model for publishers in July. Media outlets and content platforms including Fortune, Time, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, Der Spiegel and WordPress.com were the first to join the company’s “Publishers Program.”
OpenAI and Time magazine announced a “multi-year content deal” in June that will enable OpenAI to access current and archived articles from more than 100 years of Time’s history. OpenAI will be able to display Time’s content within its ChatGPT chatbot in response to user queries, according to a press release, and use Time’s content “to enhance its products,” or, likely, to train its AI models.
OpenAI announced a similar partnership in May with News Corp., allowing OpenAI to access current and archived articles from The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron’s, the New York Post and other publications. Reddit also announced in May that it will partner with OpenAI, allowing the company to train its AI models on Reddit content.
Other news publications and media outlets are aggressively attempting to safeguard their businesses as AI-generated content becomes more prevalent.
The Center for Investigative Reporting, the country’s oldest nonprofit newsroom, sued OpenAI and principal sponsor Microsoft in federal court in June for alleged copyright infringement, following similar suits from publications including The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News.
The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI in December, alleging intellectual property violations with respect to its journalistic content that was included in ChatGPT training data. The Times said it seeks to hold Microsoft and OpenAI accountable for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of the Times’s uniquely valuable works,” according to a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The Times’ portrayal of events was rejected by OpenAI.
In April, the Chicago Tribune, along with seven other publications, filed a lawsuit.
Source : CNBC News
