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OpenAI recently announced a new licensing agreement with the Financial Times, a well-known business newspaper. This partnership allows OpenAI to utilize articles and images from the Financial Times as training data for its ChatGPT tool, which will summarize articles and provide relevant links.
The main goal behind this collaboration is to drive traffic to the Financial Times website as ChatGPT generates summaries of articles and includes links to the original content, as reported by the newspaper here. In exchange, OpenAI gains access to the Financial Times' articles and images to enhance its text and image generation capabilities.
This partnership marks the fifth such deal for OpenAI, following agreements with the Associated Press, Axel Springer, Le Monde, and Prisa Media. However, OpenAI has not yet established any partnerships in the Benelux region. While the financial details of the agreement between OpenAI and the Financial Times remain undisclosed, it is noted that Google has not entered into similar agreements with publishers for its Gemini language models.
Furthermore, OpenAI is currently embroiled in a legal dispute with The New York Times regarding the use of online articles as training data for its models, highlighting a gray area in the legal landscape. Despite these challenges, OpenAI continues to forge partnerships with leading publishers to enhance its AI capabilities.
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