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The Financial Times is a publication read by top executives in the financial industry. $75 per month The price of full online access allows OpenAI to use our articles to train our AI chatbots.
Per the agreement, OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon answer related questions with summaries and quotes taken directly from the FT’s pages announced Monday. The chatbot links to his entire FT article that it references.
FT Group CEO John Ridding Said “Of course, it is right for AI platforms to pay publishers for the use of their materials,” he said, adding that OpenAI “understands the importance of transparency, attribution and compensation, all of which are essential to us.” Stated.
Financial details of the partnership or when the FT article will be incorporated into OpenAI’s products were not disclosed.
John Ridding, CEO of the Financial Times. Photo by Sportsfile/Corbis/Sportsfile, Getty Images
In addition to the FT, OpenAI also signed similar deals with Axel Springer, publisher of Politico, Business Insider, and Bild. Decemberwhich means ChatGPT may soon be quoting the company’s content.
According to the deal, ChatGPT will summarize and link to the full text of Axel Springer’s branded articles as they are published in real time, potentially driving more traffic to publishers’ sites.
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Newspaper company sues OpenAI
The FT and Axel Springer are two examples of organizations that have chosen to work with OpenAI, but other publications have also taken legal action against the ChatGPT creators, alleging copyright infringement.
Eight newspapers owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital, including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel. sued OpenAI and Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
The publication claimed that both ChatGPT and Copilot, AI chatbots provided by OpenAI and Microsoft respectively, can reproduce long excerpts of articles behind a paywall with appropriate prompts.
This may indicate that the chatbot was trained on copyrighted articles that were used without permission or payment.
Related: Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta for ‘copyright infringement’ after using her work to train AI models
Microsoft and OpenAI “take publishers’ copyrighted works with impunity, use publishers’ journalism to create GenAI products, and in some cases download their “content” from publishers’ paywalled websites. verbatim) and undermines the publisher’s core business.Reader” and complaint said.
According to the complaint, AI bots can also exhibit hallucinations, generate large amounts of false information, and attribute that information to publications.
Other news organizations have made similar claims against OpenAI and Microsoft in previous legal cases.new york times filed a lawsuit In December, it claimed that two tech giants had used millions of articles to “create an alternative to The Times and steal viewers from it.”
News sites The Intercept, AlterNet, and Raw Story filed their own lawsuits. February.
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