OpenAI decided to contact publishers to obtain legal authorization to use their articles to train its AI ChatGPT.
If OpenAI’s chatbot was undoubtedly the star of the year 2023, it also caused a number of problems for Microsoft’s partner company. Because the entities behind the content used to train the AI did not appreciate seeing their work exploited for free by the start-up, which generated a significant number of legal actions. Legal actions that OpenAI would like to avoid in the future.
OpenAI will request authorization
Would the legal complaint filed by the New York Times against OpenAI have changed things? While we cannot be sure, it is quite disturbing that, a few weeks after the start of this high-profile legal action, OpenAI seems to be changing its tune.
Indeed, according to The Informationthe company led by Sam Altman would have contacted a certain number of publishers to obtain the right to exploit their news articles, articles which are part of the content with which the chatbots are fed.
Conditions worse than those of Apple
An initiative which can obviously only improve the image of the Californian firm. However, these first exchanges also show that it does not wish to spend significant sums to obtain the rights in question. The Information thus speaks of proposed agreements through which publishers would obtain between 1 and 5 million dollars.
A fairly low amount when compared with what Apple offers. Because the bitten apple brand has already been in negotiations for a little longer at the same time. And the Cupertino company is putting at least $50 million on the table for each potential agreement with publishers. What push them to be firmer with OpenAI?
Source : 9to5mac
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