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OpenAI and Time magazine on Thursday announced a “multi-year content agreement” that will allow OpenAI to access current and archival articles from more than 100 years of Time’s history.
the MicrosoftThe backed startup will be able to display Time content within its ChatGPT chatbot in response to user questions, according to a press release, and use Time content to “enhance its products,” or more likely to train its AI models.
OpenAI's use of Time content will contain a quote and link back to the original source, the statement said.
As part of the deal, Time will have access to OpenAI technology to “develop new products for its audience,” the statement said.
This news comes on the heels of a similar partnership announced by OpenAI and News Corp. in May, which allows OpenAI to access current and archived articles from News Corp. outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron's, The New York Post, and more. Reddit also announced in May that it would be partnering with OpenAI, allowing the company to train its AI models on Reddit content.
AI companies are facing a number of lawsuits over alleged copyright infringement.
In December, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging intellectual property violations related to its journalistic content that appeared in ChatGPT training data. The New York Times is seeking to hold Microsoft and OpenAI liable for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of the uniquely valuable works of The New York Times,” according to a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. OpenAI has disputed the New York Times' description of the events.
In 2023, a group of prominent American authors, including Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Jodi Picoult, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging copyright infringement in the use of their works to train ChatGPT. In July, two authors filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that their books were used to train the company's chatbot without their consent.
