OpenAI Inks Licensing Deals to Bring Vox Media, The Atlantic Content to ChatGPT
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor OpenAI announced pacts with two more media companies — Vox Media and The Atlantic — to license their content for the ChatGPT artificial-intelligence chatbot.
Under the deals, the companies also will work with OpenAI on a range of product-development initiatives. In recent months, OpenAI has struck similar deals with companies including News Corp, Dotdash Meredith, the Financial Times and Reddit.
In another camp are the New York Times and other newspapers, which have sued OpenAI as well as Microsoft, alleging the tech companies engaged in copyright infringement by using the publishers’ content to train their AI systems.
Financial terms of OpenAI’s deals with Vox Media and The Atlantic weren’t disclosed. Vox Media, whose properties include Vox, The Verge, Eater, New York Magazine, The Cut, Vulture and SB Nation, will license content to OpenAI that will “help inform ChatGPT’s 100 million users, receiving brand attribution and audience referrals,” according to the company.
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