Time magazine and OpenAI have inked a multi-year content agreement to grant the ChatGPT creator access to Time magazine’s news archive.
According to a press release, the Microsoft-backed business will be allowed to use Time’s information “to enhance its products,” or most likely, to train its artificial intelligence models, and display Time’s content within its ChatGPT chatbot in response to customer inquiries.
The announcement comes after News Corp. and OpenAI launched a similar collaboration in May, enabling OpenAI to access both live and past content from News Corp.’s publications, such as The New York Post, Barron’s, MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, and more.
In May, Reddit also declared that it would collaborate with OpenAI, enabling the latter to use Reddit material to train its artificial intelligence models.
Newsng gathered that through the agreement, OpenAI will have access to Time’s archives spanning the last 101 years, which it will use to train its massive language models and employ in ChatGPT and other consumer-facing products to respond to user inquiries.
“Throughout our 101-year history, TIME has embraced innovation to ensure that the delivery of our trusted journalism evolves alongside technology,” said TIME Chief Operating Officer Mark Howard.
“This partnership with OpenAI advances our mission to expand access to trusted information globally as we continue to embrace innovative new ways of bringing TIME’s journalism to audiences globally.”
Using its Time Vault section, Time, which was established in March 1923, has digitised a large amount of its history, including original scans of individual issues and covers.
The newsweekly still has more than 1.1 million print subscribers, according to the Alliance of Audited Media, after removing its paywall last year in an attempt to generate more advertising money than digital subscription revenue.
The firms stated in a statement that the chatbot will cite and provide a link to the source on Time.com in response to user inquiries.
The deal’s financial details were kept a secret.
We earlier reported that in the upcoming months, browser maker, Mozilla, will be evaluating the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the Firefox browser through the most recent Nightly build.
