The Financial Times It became the latest news organization to contract with OpenAI. In a joint announcement Monday, the Financial Times and OpenAI he said ChatGPT’s developer will use the Financial Times’ journalism to train its AI models and collaborate on developing new AI products and features for the publication’s readers. ChatGPT will also attribute and link back Financial Times when they include the publication’s information in their answers
“Of course it’s right for AI platforms to pay publishers for the use of their material,” he said. Financial Times CEO John Ridding added in his statement Time “committed to human journalism”. Neither company disclosed the financial terms of the deal. Earlier this year Information informed OpenAI offers publishers $1 million to $5 million per year to license their content to train AI models.
Generative AI is only as good as the training data used to develop the models that power it. So far, AI companies have often scraped everything they can find on the public internet without consent creators and constantly have on the hunt for new data sources to keep the outputs generated by these models current. Training AI models on news is one way to achieve this, but some publishers are reluctant to give their content to AI companies for free. The New York Times and BBCfor example, OpenAI has a reluctance to break websites.
As a result, OpenAI enters into financial agreements with leading publishers to train its models. Last year the company became a partner retraining their models with German publisher Axel Springer Politics and Business Insider in the United States and Bild and Die Welt in Germany. There are also contracts with the company Associated Pressof France Le Mondeand of Spain Prisa Media.
Subscribe Financial Times for at least $39 per month. But like some shownits partnership with OpenAI means breaking down its own paywall for general readers through efficient artificial intelligence.
