What’s the news: OpenAI will have access to the content of major news publications like The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Daily Telegraph, and others following a multi-year agreement between the AI company and News Corp.
As per the agreement, the companies have entered a partnership that allows OpenAI to display content from News Corp publications in response to user questions and ‘to enhance its products.’
“OpenAI will receive access to current and archived content from News Corp’s major news and information publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Investor’s Business Daily, FN, and New York Post; The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun; The Australian, news.com.au, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier Mail, The Advertiser, and Herald Sun; and others. The partnership does not include access to content from any of News Corp’s other businesses,” said an OpenAI blog post.
An approach contrary to previous reactions
News Corp’s move is at odds with the reactions of other publications like the New York Times in December 2023 which filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for training their AI models by infringing on millions of its copyrighted articles.
In its complaint, the New York Times accused OpenAI and Microsoft of “using The Times’s content without payment to create products that substitute for The Times and steal audiences away from it.” Incidentally, many other folks in the creative sectors like screenwriters and authors in the US raised similar concerns.
It seems News Corp is attempting to stay ahead of the curve by actively entering into a partnership with OpenAI. Social media platform Reddit entered into a similar partnership with the tech giant on May 16, 2024, allowing OpenAI to access its Data API.
Should we expect more nuance from OpenAI’s products?
The wealth of knowledge from these publication archives is likely to increase the quality of AI responses. However, the information access will still be articles with insights and publication biases as opposed to raw data. This means that even with the partnership, AI products might still lack the required nuance to address complex or sensitive topics effectively.
It is important to keep in mind that the partnership involves only 15 publications, most of which are focused on business or finance. This again raises the question of whether OpenAI’s AI products like ChatGPT will be able to close all knowledge gaps in its responses successfully.
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