OpenAI has announced a new collaboration with "The Guardian," a British newspaper
The Guardian Media Group, the British company that owns The Guardian newspaper, has announced a new partnership with artificial intelligence company OpenAI.
The two parties have agreed that the newspaper's reports, along with brief summaries and article excerpts, will be displayed as a news source within ChatGPT.
The media group intends to use ChatGPT Enterprise services, which are intended for businesses, to create new tools, features, and products in exchange.
With this partnership, The Guardian joins a growing list of media organizations that are partnering with OpenAI, after a period of hesitation about the company’s business model.
This trend began with a partnership with the Associated Press in 2023, before being followed by many major media organizations, such as the Financial Times, Axel Springer, News Corp. (owner of the Wall Street Journal), Vox Media, Time magazine, The Atlantic magazine, and others.
OpenAI is working to establish and expand these partnerships in order to integrate their content into its services, use it to train AI models, and protect itself from any future lawsuits related to intellectual property rights.
It is worth noting that this partnership also comes after The Guardian participated in a coalition of publishers that filed a lawsuit against the Canadian company Cohere, accusing it of using more than 4,000 copyrighted works to train its AI models, which are issues that have become recurring since the emergence of generative language models in the hands of consumers.