OpenAI has signed a content partnership with Condé Nast, a worldwide media company that publishes the American weekly news magazine The Latest Yorker. With this, it has concluded a major variety of contracts with major global media outlets, excluding some media outlets, and thru this, the bogus intelligence (AI) search engine ‘SearchGPT’ has also received great momentum.
CNBC reported on the twentieth (local time) that OpenAI signed a multi-year partnership with the American global media company Condé Nast.
Condé Nast is an organization that owns famous magazines and online media comparable to Vogue, The Latest Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Wired, and Bon Appetit.
This partnership will allow OpenAI to display content from Condé Nast magazines and media outlets as answers in products comparable to ChatGPT and SearchGPT. It’ll be possible to cite the articles that support the answers to users’ questions and indicate the source.
In a blog post on the identical day, OpenAI emphasized, “With the introduction of the SearchGPT prototype, we’re experimenting with latest search features that may enable users to quickly and intuitively find information and reliable content sources,” and “We are going to make it easier for users to explore in-depth content.”
He also added that he plans to integrate a number of the features deemed excellent in Search GPT into Chat GPT.
“AI is increasingly necessary within the task of finding and sharing information, and we’re committed to working with news providers,” said Brett Lightcap, COO of OpenAI.
The partnership comes amid growing concerns over AI training data copyright lawsuits and data shortages.
Specifically, while other AI corporations have been quiet, OpenAI has been signing contracts with major media outlets one after one other because the end of last yr to secure copyrights.
Along with signing a multi-year content take care of Time magazine in June, it signed an identical partnership with News Corporation, which owns the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, and the Latest York Post, in May. It also has partnerships with Germany’s Axel Springer, the Associated Press within the U.S., Le Monde in France, Prisa Media in Spain, and the Financial Times within the U.K.
Excluding some media outlets currently in litigation, comparable to the Latest York Times and Chicago Tribune, many well-known global media outlets have been included within the contract.
Meanwhile, some have raised concerns that OpenAI could monopolize training data through partnerships with major media outlets.
The purpose is that content from media outlets which have contracts with OpenAI will routinely have their data locked. In other words, if content is used for AI model training, etc. with out a partnership, it could be a violation of OpenAI’s rights.
In reality, Condé Nast sent a stop and desist letter to AI search engine startup Perplexity last month, demanding that it stop using Condé Nast publications in search results.
Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com
