This agreement comes amid ongoing legal disputes between The New York Times and OpenAI, along with its partner Microsoft Corp., over alleged copyright infringement. The Times has accused these companies of using its articles to train AI chatbots without compensation. OpenAI has faced similar lawsuits from authors and publishers for allegedly scraping web content to train its ChatGPT chatbot. In response to concerns about losing readers and advertising revenue to AI-generated content, many publishers have secured licensing deals with companies like OpenAI, Alphabet Inc., and Perplexity AI.
Key takeaways:
- The New York Times has reached a deal to license its editorial content to Amazon for use across its AI platforms.
- The collaboration will include Times editorial content, recipes from NYT Cooking, and sports content from The Athletic.
- Summaries and excerpts of Times content will be used in Amazon products like Alexa and to train Amazon's AI models.
- The New York Times is currently in a lawsuit with OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement related to AI training.