OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, signed a contract on Monday April 29 with the Financial Times (FT): the American artificial intelligence (AI) start-up, accused by other media of copyright infringement, will be able to license content from the British daily. The agreement will allow ChatGPT to provide its users “news summaries attributed to Financial Timesquotes and links [vers le site du journal] in response to relevant questions »explain a press release from the FT. In “incorporating FT journalism”This “strategic partnership” will help improve the usefulness of OpenAI models, assures the media.
THE “models” are the technology underlying generative AI interfaces, which make it possible to produce texts, images or others upon simple request from the user, and in everyday language. They have aroused a lot of enthusiasm since the end of 2022, but also a lot of concern, because the giants of Silicon Valley have collected astronomical quantities of data on the Internet for “train”.
Many authors, artists and news sites accuse these companies of copyright infringement. At the end of December, the New York Times launched lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, the main investor in this start-up. But, in recent months, the creator of ChatGPT has undertaken to enter into content licensing agreements with media – including The world, but also the AP press agency, the Spanish conglomerate Prisa Media and the German group Axel Springer – to enrich its models.
A partnership between Axel Springer and Microsoft
The Axel Springer group, publisher of the tabloid Bild, announced on Monday a new major partnership in artificial intelligence, this time with the software publisher Microsoft, by being paid for making its content available. This partnership stipulates in particular that “Axel Springer will work with Microsoft to test innovative AI-powered chat experiences in which users can be informed and interact with Axel Springer’s journalistic content..
“It is obviously right that AI platforms pay publishers for the use of their material”commented for his part John Ridding, the boss of Financial Times, quoted in the media release. “OpenAI understands the importance of transparency, attribution [des sources] and compensation, all of which are essential to us. At the same time, it is clearly in the interests of users that these products contain reliable sources”he added.