OpenAI will now pay media companies to access their articles for training its AI.
In fact, the ChatGPT creator will reportedly pay News Corp $250 million over the next five years to access its journalism content.
This partnership will allow OpenAI to utilise current and archived material from News Corp's various publications, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, The Sun, the New York Post, the Times, and the Sunday Times.
In the past few months, OpenAI has been dealing with lawsuits from media outlets for training its chatbots with millions of articles available on these sites.
The company initially trained its AI model on publicly available data scraped from the internet without explicit consent from content creators.
However, this approach led to numerous legal and ethical issues, with major publishers like The New York Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.
With the new $250 million deal, OpenAI will be paying for the high-quality, factually correct data it was sourcing from these journalism websites.
The deal will provide OpenAI access to a vast library of news content, which it will use to further enhance its AI models' ability to provide accurate and timely information.
Since the release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, generative AI has surged in popularity.
However, the quality of AI-generated responses hinges on the quality of the training data.
By using updated and factually correct data from journalism websites, OpenAI aims to refine its models further, ensuring that its AI can deliver reliable and insightful information.
Earlier, OpenAI announced similar agreements with the Financial Times, Reddit, Dotdash Meredith, the Associated Press, and Axel Springer, the parent company of Politico and Business Insider.
These deals are all part of the company’s plans to source ethical and sustainable practices in the AI industry, where content creators are appropriately compensated for their contributions.
Following suit, OpenAI’s competitor Google also recently struck a deal with News Corp worth between $5 and $6 million to train its AI models, and Meta is reportedly considering similar agreements with news publishers.