Newspapers are negotiating with OpenAI to pay for the use of their content on ChatGPT

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Several major publications, including The New York Times, Reuters, and The Washington Post, are in discussions with ChatGPT creator OpenAI about getting paid for giving the chatbot access to their content.

Here's What We Know

Since August, more than 500 news organisations have blocked ChatGPT from collecting training content. Now the talk is about allowing the chatbot to provide links to specific articles in its responses for a fee to publishers. This will benefit newspapers from direct payments and increased traffic.

OpenAI previously struck a deal to licence Associated Press content to train its AI models. Negotiations with other publications also involve using content for training, not just links in ChatGPT responses.

Other resources, like Reddit, are also looking at monetising their content by providing data for a fee to AI development companies. Some authors are suing tech giants for copyright infringement for using texts to train AI.

OpenAI has confirmed talks with the newspapers. The company claims that the training data for ChatGPT was obtained legally. A number of major sites, including Reddit and Wikipedia, are also launching paid services for AI companies in need of training content.

Source: The Washington Post