On May 29, OpenAI continued to announce a cooperation agreement with two major media companies, Vox Media and The Atlantic, bringing the total number of cooperated press agencies to more than 70.
Just a week after announcing its partnership with News Corp - the company that owns the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, OpenAI continues to attract attention when it reaches content supply agreements with Vox Media and The Atlantic. This move comes in the context of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot becoming increasingly popular, attracting a large number of users looking for information. To ensure information is updated accurately, AI companies are making efforts to find quality, reliable news data sources from third parties.
This partnership reflects OpenAI's efforts to provide accurate and reliable information to users of ChatGPT and other chatbots. Current AI models still have many limitations in processing information, easily leading to errors. Therefore, using content from reputable news agencies is considered the optimal solution to improve the reliability of answers from AI.
However, not all newspapers support this direction. The cooperation with OpenAI has created mixed opinions in the media. Some are concerned about the risk of losing readers and revenue as users turn to AI to access information. Others believe that this is an opportunity for the journalism industry to reach new readers and exploit revenue from the growing AI market.
The New York Times and several newspapers owned by investment fund Alden Global Capital have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement. Previously, OpenAI and other technology companies such as Google and Meta collected data from the internet to train AI models without asking permission or paying copyright fees.
Although OpenAI justifies its use of public data as legal under fair use laws. However, to ensure its chatbot always provides the latest and most useful information, OpenAI still needs to access new content from paid news sites. Therefore, content partnership agreements like those with Vox Media and The Atlantic are key to helping OpenAI achieve this goal.
However, some experts say that news agencies "giving power" to OpenAI may be a mistake. Jessica Lessin, veteran technology journalist and founder of the news site The Information, commented that it will be difficult for the journalism industry to control the direction of this relationship and may suffer disadvantages like when cooperating with Apple, Google or Meta before.
