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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI strikes deal with AP to access news as US regulators investigate the Microsoft-backed firm
- The deal gives OpenAI access to part of The Associated Press archive, in a hedge against losing access to material amid multiple lawsuits
- The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the AI firm violated consumer protection laws by scraping public data and publishing false information
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and The Associated Press said Thursday that they’ve made a deal for the artificial intelligence company to license AP’s archive of news stories.
“The arrangement sees OpenAI licensing part of AP’s text archive, while AP will leverage OpenAI’s technology and product expertise,” the two organisations said in a joint statement.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
OpenAI and other technology companies must ingest large troves of written works, such as books, news articles and social media chatter, to improve their AI systems known as large language models. Last year’s release of ChatGPT has sparked a boom in “generative AI” products that can create new passages of text, images and other media.
The tools have raised concerns about their propensity to spout falsehoods that are hard to notice because of the system’s strong command of the grammar of human languages. They also have raised questions about to what extent news organisations and others whose writing, artwork, music or other work was used to “train” the AI models should be compensated.
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