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OpenAI and Time Magazine announced a “multi-year content deal” on Thursday that will give OpenAI access to current and archived articles from more than 100 years of Time history.
As part of the deal, the Microsoft-backed startup will be able to display Time's content in its ChatGPT chatbot in response to user queries, according to a press release. The startup will also be able to use Time's content “to improve its products,” or likely to train its artificial intelligence models.
OpenAI's use of Time's content will include a quote and link back to the original source, the release said.
As part of the deal, Time will gain access to OpenAI's technology to “develop new products for its audience,” the press release said.
The news follows a similar partnership announced by OpenAI and News Corp. last month, giving OpenAI access to current and archived articles from News Corp. outlets including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron's, The New York Post and more. Last month, Reddit also announced it was partnering with OpenAI, allowing the company to train its AI models on Reddit content.
The partnerships follow a growing number of lawsuits against AI companies alleging copyright infringement.
In December, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging intellectual property violations related to the journalistic content appearing in ChatGPT training data. The Times is seeking to hold Microsoft and OpenAI responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of the Times' uniquely valuable works,” according to a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of the United States. New York. OpenAI disagreed with the Times' characterization of events.
The Times' lawsuit is one of a handful of recent legal actions against companies behind popular generative AI tools, whether chatbots like ChatGPT or image generators. Last year, a group of prominent US authors, including Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George RR Martin and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT. In July, two authors filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming their books were used to train the company's chatbot without their consent.
