A multiyear agreement between OpenAI and Time will enhance ChatGPT with journalistic material

A «multi-year content deal» between OpenAI and Time magazine was revealed on Thursday. Under the terms of the agreement, OpenAI will have access to both current and past stories from Time’s more than 100-year history.

According to a press release, the Microsoft-backed business will be allowed to utilize 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.

According to the announcement, whenever OpenAI uses content from Time, it will provide a citation and a backlink to the original source.

According to the press release, Time will be able to «develop new products for its audiences» with the help of OpenAI’s technology as part of the agreement.

The announcement follows a similar collaboration between OpenAI and News Corp. that was made public in May and gives OpenAI access to 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 said that it will collaborate with OpenAI, enabling the latter to use Reddit material to train its artificial intelligence models.

AI businesses are frequently sued for allegedly violating copyright.

The New York Times launched a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI in December, claiming that the latter two companies had violated their intellectual property rights by using its journalistic material as training data for ChatGPT. In a petition with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, The Times claims that Microsoft and OpenAI should pay «billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages» resulting from the «unlawful copying and use of the Times’s uniquely valuable works.» OpenAI took issue with how the Times described what happened.