OpenAI and Time magazine announced a “multi-year content agreement” on Thursday that will give OpenAI access to current and archived articles from Time’s more than 100-year history.
of MicrosoftThe company, which is backed by Salesforce, said it will be able to display TIME content within its ChatGPT chatbot to answer users’ questions. press releaseand will use Time Inc.’s content “to enhance its products,” or perhaps to train artificial intelligence models.
According to the release, if OpenAI uses any content from Time, it will provide a citation and link to the original source.
As part of the deal, Time will have access to OpenAI’s technology to “develop new products for our readers,” the publication said.
This news was announced by OpenAI and News Corporation The deal will give OpenAI access to current and archived articles from News Corp. publications, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron’s, and The New York Post. Reddit also announced a partnership with OpenAI in May to allow it to train AI models on Reddit content.
AI companies are facing numerous lawsuits for alleged copyright infringement.
In December, The New York Times filed suit against Microsoft and OpenAI alleging intellectual property infringement related to the company’s journalistic content that appeared in ChatGPT’s training data. According to documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Times seeks to hold Microsoft and OpenAI liable for “billions of dollars in combined statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’ uniquely valuable work.” OpenAI has disputed The Times’s description of the events.
In 2023, a group of prominent US authors, including Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI, alleging that their works were used to train ChatGPT, a copyright infringement. In July, two authors filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that their books were used to train the company’s chatbots without their consent.