OpenAI Makes A Scene! Discuss News Licenses With CNN, Fox Corp., And Time

OpenAI, in talks with big companies like CNN, Fox Corp., and Time (photo: dock. pesels)

JAKARTA - OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) developer, is in talks with major companies such as CNN, Fox Corp., and Time to license their news content. This was first reported by Bloomberg.

OpenAI is reportedly looking for an agreement with the media giant that produces news, videos, and other types of digital media content to help make its AI chatbot more accurate and up-to-date.

For example, OpenAI said it was discussing a licensing article from CNN to train ChatGPT and display its content in OpenAI products. Both CNN and Fox are reportedly discussing text, video, and image licensing.

On January 9, Fox Corp announced the launch of the Polygon-based blockchain platform to help verify the use of its content by the AI company.

Jessica Total, CEO of Time, released a statement saying they were in talks with OpenAI and "optimistic to reach an agreement that reflects the fair value of our content."

When this article was written, the AI ChatGPT-3.5 chatbot was free and publicly available from OpenAI only provided with training data until January 2022.

However, in September 2023, OpenAI announced that premium and enterprise models running ChatGPT-4 can now explore the internet and are no longer limited by training schedules.

OpenAI's initiative to make licensing agreements with media companies will basically protect it from problems in the future related to copyright infringement.

This comes as OpenAI faces several lawsuits related to alleged copyright infringement of content used to train its AI model.

The most significant is the lawsuit filed by The New York Times on December 27 which states that the use of its content by OpenAI in training "not a fair use of all sizes" and threatens its journalistic work.

A week later, another lawsuit was filed against OpenAI by writers Nicholas Baskanes and Nicholas Gage, who argued that copyright owners should be compensated for their work use in AI training.

On January 9, OpenAI officially responded to NYT's lawsuit calling it "unwarranted" and stated that it was talking to media organizations about collaboration and partnerships for content licensing and AI integration.