On June 27, OpenAI and Time Magazine announced a multi-year agreement. Accordingly, the developer ChatGPT will be allowed to display Time content in the chatbot when users ask questions. The startup will also be able to use Time content to improve its products, or in other words, to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.

When using Time content, OpenAI will annotate and link back to the source. For Time’s part, the magazine will access OpenAI’s technology to “develop new products for its audience.”

mrqnjb4b.png
OpenAI officially joins hands with Time Magazine. Photo: OpenAI

Previously, in May, OpenAI and media group News Corp also announced a similar agreement, allowing OpenAI to access old and new articles from affiliated newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron's, The New York Post... Reddit said it would cooperate with OpenAI to train AI models based on the forum's content.

AI companies are facing numerous lawsuits for alleged copyright infringement. In December 2023, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging intellectual property infringement related to journalistic content that appeared in ChatGPT’s training data. The newspaper wants Microsoft and OpenAI to be held liable for billions of dollars in legal and factual damages for “illegally copying and misusing the Times’s original works,” according to a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

In 2023, a group of prominent American authors, including Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI for copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT. In July of the same year, two other authors filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that their books were used without permission to train the company's chatbot.

(According to CNBC)