Adding to the growing list of news organisations that have inked content deals with the rapidly expanding artificial intelligence company OpenAI, News Corp., a multinational news publisher under the control of the Murdoch family, has announced a partnership that will permit it to display news content when users ask questions in ChatGPT.
Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp., confirmed the partnership in a release by Newsng on Thursday that OpenAI will also be able to use News Corp.’s content “to enhance its products.”
The development comes as Reddit revealed last week that it will collaborate with OpenAI, enabling the creator of ChatGPT to train its artificial intelligence models using content from Reddit.
Reddit’s Data application programming interface, or API, “provides real-time, structured, and unique content from Reddit,” according to a statement, and OpenAI will have access to it as part of that agreement.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the deal could be worth more than $250 million over five years.
Newsng gathered that News Corp.’s major news and information publications, such as the Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Investor’s Business Daily, FN, and the New York Post; The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Sun in the United Kingdom; and The Australian, news.com.au, the Daily Telegraph, the Courier Mail, the Advertiser, and Herald Sun in Australia, will provide OpenAI with access to both current and archived content. Access to material from any of News Corp’s other businesses is not included in the collaboration.
“We greatly value News Corp’s history as a leader in reporting breaking news around the world, and are excited to enhance our users’ access to its high-quality reporting,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement.
According to the firms’ release, News Corp will “share journalistic expertise to help ensure the highest journalism standards are present across OpenAI’s offering” in addition to supplying content.
The deal comes amid controversy with OpenAI facing allegations from actress Scarlett Johansson that the company copied her voice for its “Sky” audio chatbot
