OpenAI, Financial Times Ink Content Licensing Deal to Train AI

Apr 29, 2024, 10:05 AM

OpenAI has entered into a strategic partnership and content licensing agreement with the Financial Times (FT). This deal will allow OpenAI to train its AI models on FT's archived journalism content and integrate attributed content into ChatGPT responses. The collaboration aims to enhance the capabilities of ChatGPT by incorporating summaries, quotes, and links from FT articles, thereby improving the model's usefulness and accuracy. FT CEO emphasized the importance of transparency, attribution, and compensation in this agreement. Additionally, FT was already an Enterprise customer before becoming a partner. This partnership marks a significant step in the use of journalistic content to train AI systems, reflecting a growing trend of collaboration between media outlets and AI technology companies.