In a massive deal that comfortably places OpenAI in the media space, the company announced a multi-year agreement with News Corp, the American mass media and publishing company. The partnership will allow OpenAI to display content from News Corp. in response to user queries.
Access to All Major Publications
With the News Corp. partnership, OpenAI will have access to current and archived content from major news publications across the globe, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Investor’s Business Daily, FN, New York Post, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Australian, news.com.au, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier Mail, The Advertiser, and Herald Sun, and others.
“Our partnership with News Corp is a proud moment for journalism and technology,” said OpenAI chief, Sam Altman. “We greatly value News Corp’s history as a leader in reporting breaking news around the world, and are excited to enhance our users’ access to its high quality reporting.
The News Corp. announcement is a continuation to the string of publication partnerships that OpenAI has been building since last year. In March, OpenAI partnered with Le Monde and Prisa Media to bring French and Spanish news to its platform, and last year, the company also partnered with Associated Press and American Journalism Project.
Content Hassle Sorted
With the ongoing controversies surrounding big tech companies using publicly available data without user consent, OpenAI’s approach of partnering with major news publications helps them avoid this problem. In the process, also acquire more content for possibly training their upcoming models such as GPT-5.
Furthermore, OpenAI also partnered with StackOverflow and Reddit, which gives them access to a vast repository of community discussions that will also go into improving ChatGPT and other AI models.
While the move is only going to benefit OpenAI, users are concerned about how media biases will creep into generated content.
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