OpenAI publicizes content agreement with Hearst

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

As a part of the partnership, OpenAI products reminiscent of ChatGPT and SearchGPT will have the ability to display content from greater than 20 magazine brands and greater than 40 newspapers owned by the corporate announced on Tuesday.

“Our partnership with OpenAI will help us advance the future of magazine content,” Debi Chirichella, president of Hearst Magazines, said in a press release.

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

The deal is the most recent trend wherein media firms are forging content partnerships with AI startups.

OpenAI announced the same partnership in August with Condé Nast, which owns media brands reminiscent of Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair and Wired.

After greater than a month of plagiarism allegations, Perplexity AI launched a revenue share model for publishers in July. Media firms and content platforms reminiscent of Fortune, Time, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, Der Spiegel and WordPress.com were the primary to hitch Perplexity AI's Publishers Program.

OpenAI and Time announced a “multi-year content deal” in June that may give OpenAI access to current and archived articles spanning greater than 100 years of the magazine’s history. OpenAI will have the ability to display Time's content in its ChatGPT chatbot in response to user questions the magazineand use Time's content “to improve its products” or probably to coach its AI models.

In May, OpenAI announced a partnership with News Corp. known, which enables 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 a cope with OpenAI in May, allowing the ChatGPT maker to coach its AI models on the social media company's content.

Other news publications and media firms are aggressively attempting to protect their businesses as AI-generated content becomes more common.

The Center for Investigative Reporting, the nation's oldest nonprofit newsroom, sued OpenAI and its predominant backer Microsoft sued in federal court in June over alleged copyright infringement, following similar lawsuits filed by 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 mental property violations related to its journalistic content in ChatGPT training data. The newspaper said it desired 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' uniquely valuable works,” in line with a filing within the U.S. District Court for the South District of New York. OpenAI disagreed with the publication's characterization of events.

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