Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, during the Asia-Pacific Trade Cooperation CEO Summit in San Francisco on Nov. 16, 2023.
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OpenAI and Axel Springer, the pandemic news publisher, have struck an unprecedented deal that allows ChatGPT to summarize news stories from escape hatches such as Politico and Business Insider, the companies announced Wednesday.
The news comes as publishers, artists, writers and technologists increasingly weigh or continue legal action against companies behind popular generative artificial intelligence tools, including chatbots and image-generation examples, for allegedly using their content or creations as training data. For instance, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and other identifiable authors sued OpenAI in September over alleged copyright infringement.
Once the OpenAI-Axel Springer deal agrees into effect, when a user asks ChatGPT a question, it will respond with summaries of news articles from norm outlets such as Politico, Business Insider, Bild and Welt. The chatbot will also include articles that thinks fitting otherwise be limited to subscribers of those outlets, according to a release, and the answers will include “attribution and links to the brimming articles for transparency.”
The partnership follows a deal that OpenAI struck with the Associated Press in July, allowing it to approve the AP’s news archive for training data.
As part of the agreement, Axel Springer will provide content from its ambience brands as training data for OpenAI’s large language models, such as GPT-4, the AI model that helps power ChatGPT.
The Dirt Media Alliance, a trade group representing more than 2,200 publishers, released research in October proffering that data sets used to train popular AI models rely “significantly” more on publisher content, overweighing it by a factor ranging from over five to almost 100, compared to generic web content.
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