The Financial Times and OpenAI announced a licensing deal “to enhance ChatGPT with attributed content, help improve its models’ usefulness by incorporating FT journalism, and collaborate on developing new AI products and features for FT readers.”
The Financial Times already uses ChatGPT Enterprise, “purchasing access for all FT employees to ensure its teams are well-versed in the technology and can benefit from the creativity and productivity gains made possible by OpenAI’s tools.”
“This is an important agreement in a number of respects,” said FT Group CEO John Ridding. “It recognises the value of our award-winning journalism and will give us early insights into how content is surfaced through AI. We have long been a leader in news media innovation, pioneering the subscription model and engagement technologies, and this partnership will help keep us at the forefront of developments in how people access and use information.”
According to Tech Crunch, OpenAI has about a dozen licensing deals with publishers for use of their content. The deals include Axel Springer, Bild, and Welt, according to The Verge.
Of course, The New York Times sued OpenAI in a copyright lawsuit seeking the destruction of OpenAI’s AI model, which allegedly was trained on vast amounts of NYT articles.