Content licensing: OpenAI holds talks with media firms

OpenAI is currently in negotiations with several media corporations, including CNN, Fox Corp, and Time, to potentially license their work, according to a recent article in Bloomberg News.

The artificial intelligence startup aims to secure licensing agreements for articles from Warner Bros. Discovery Inc’s CNN, intending to utilize them in training ChatGPT. Additionally, the startup plans to incorporate CNN’s content into its products, the report said.

This comes as OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft are facing multiple lawsuits accusing them of using copyrighted works to train artificial-intelligence (AI) products.

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Filed in the Manhattan federal court, the latest case involves nonfiction authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, alleging that the companies have improperly utilized their work to train AI models.

In the latter part of last month, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against the companies, alleging the unauthorized use of millions of the newspaper’s articles. The claim suggests that the articles were employed without permission to aid in training chatbots for disseminating information to readers.