OpenAI are busy striking up deals with publications - just in are The Atlantic +Vox #ai #journalism

OpenAI are being busy little bees. The newsfeed at the moment is a whole slew of different partnership agreements that they've reached. So a couple of weeks ago they signed one with Reddit, and now we're seeing there's one with the Atlantic and Vox Media. These kind of deals allow ChatGPT to train their model legally, this time using the Atlantic, Vox Media and other publications. These kind of deals seem a bit dull, not particularly exciting news. But what we're actually seeing here is a shift in the world of journalism. So it's very important for journalists. What we're seeing is the companies who own the newsletters and magazines striking up deals with AI companies. So they're going to allow these AI companies to use all the material that's been written by their writers in order to improve the AI models. If you are a journalist or you work in journalists, this is pretty scary stuff because this massive corpus of data is going to be used to train an AI in order to do journalist work. I'm pretty sure the companies who own the newspapers know this, so they'll probably be the first customers as well.