OpenAI announces content deal with Hearst | Wilnesh News

OpenAI announced a partnership with Hearst, the media conglomerate behind the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Elle and more.

Under the partnership, OpenAI’s products such as ChatGPT and SearchGPT will be able to display content from more than 20 magazine brands and more than 40 newspapers, the company’s announced on tuesday.

“Our partnership with OpenAI will help us evolve the future of magazine content,” Hearst Magazines President Debi Chirichella said in a statement.

As part of the agreement, Hearst content in ChatGPT will include appropriate citations and link users to Hearst’s original sources, the media company said in the announcement. Heart’s non-magazine and newspaper businesses will not be included in the partnership.

The deal is the latest in a trend of media organizations forming content partnerships with artificial intelligence startups.

OpenAI announced a similar partnership in August with Condé Nast, which owns media brands including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair and Wired.

Perplexity AI launched a revenue-sharing model for publishers in July after more than a month of plagiarism accusations. Media and content platforms such as Fortune, Time, Entrepreneur, Texas Tribune, Der Spiegel, and WordPress.com are the first to join Perplexity AI’s “Publisher Program.”

OpenAI and Time magazine announced a “multiyear content agreement” in June that will give OpenAI access to current and archived articles from the magazine’s more than 100-year history. OpenAI will be able to display Time magazine content in its ChatGPT chatbot to answer user questions. the magazineand uses Time magazine content to “enhance its products,” or possibly train its artificial intelligence models.

In May, OpenAI announced a partnership with News Corp., allowing OpenAI to access current and archived articles from the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron’s, New York Post and other publications. Reddit also announced an agreement with OpenAI in May to let the maker of ChatGPT train its artificial intelligence model based on the social media company’s content.

As AI-generated content becomes more commonplace, other news publications and media organizations are actively working to protect their businesses.

The Center for Investigative Reporting is the oldest nonprofit newsroom in the United States. sued OpenAI and its main backer Microsoft went on trial in federal court in June for alleged copyright infringement, following similar lawsuits filed by publications including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News.

The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI in December last year, accusing them of infringing intellectual property rights by news content appearing in ChatGPT training materials. According to a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District, the newspaper said it seeks to hold Microsoft and OpenAI liable for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to “the unlawful copying and use of The Times’ unique and valuable work.” New York area. OpenAI disagrees with the publication’s version of events.

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