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TIME magazine and OpenAI have just announced a multiyear content licensing deal. This partnership will tap into Time's rich 101-year-old archive and real-time content to train OpenAI's AI, enhancing its ability to answer user questions. OpenAI, in turn, will credit Time in its responses and link back to the original articles on Time.com. Not only that, Time will leverage OpenAI's technology to develop new products and enhance AI-driven journalism. This collaboration mirrors OpenAI's recent content deals with The Atlantic magazine and Vox Media, pointing towards a trend in the industry. #Time #OpenAI #AI #ContentLicensing #Innovation

Interesting new content deal from OpenAI: as reported by Axios, Time Magazine has provided its content library to OpenAI. Content for training isn't all that interesting. What *is* interesting is the reference in the article to "access to Time's real-time content to help answer user queries as news unfolds," in other words, mostly likely RAG through an API. I think this is the future of media syndication and portends a symbiotic co-existence between LLMs and content. Solves AI's "what's new?" problem and solves media's syndication problem.

Time is on the AI side. Time Inc. has struck a multiyear content licensing deal and strategic partnership with OpenAI, Axios reported. The collaboration aims to expand access to Time's content for younger and more diverse audiences worldwide. Under the agreement, OpenAI gains access to Time's archives spanning 101 years to enhance its large language models, notably ChatGPT. The partnership also allows OpenAI to utilize Time's real-time content to provide timely responses to user queries. Additionally, OpenAI will attribute Time in its responses and link back to the original content on Time.com. In return, Time will leverage OpenAI's technology and tools to innovate new products for its audience. The collaboration aims to enhance journalism delivery and develop AI-driven news experiences. Financial terms were not disclosed, but previous OpenAI deals have included compensation for publishers. Mark Howard, Time's chief operating officer, highlighted that the partnership aligns with their mission to provide trusted information globally. Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's chief operating officer, emphasized the importance of proper attribution to original sources in supporting reputable journalism. #time #ai #chatgpt (Source: Axios)

Time and OpenAI have struck a multiyear content licensing deal allowing OpenAI to use Time's 101-year archive for training AI models like ChatGPT. OpenAI will cite and link back to Time's content in its products, and Time gains access to OpenAI's tech for developing new journalism products. #ai #openai #chatgpt #licensing #partnership 

Yes and also no for this Time Inc. X OpenAI announcement. Up until July 2013, men had appeared on the cover of Time Magazine 4,267 times; women only 754 times. Even if every issue since July 13 2013 were women, the balance is way off. How do we not repeat history if we're feeding our generative search tools (LLM models) old and biased history? Brands want to do cool things with AI, but it would be really cool if Time rethought 1923 - 2013 covers and gave balance, maybe do a revisionist story on those new cover stars. This project could be called "It's About Time." https://lnkd.in/eSU8DAeU #time #artificalintelligence #becomelegendary #befarfromtimid

Google and OpenAI Compete to Pioneer Prompt-Driven Movie Production At their recent event, Google showcased Veo, their answer to Sora, OpenAI's text-to-video. Veo's versatility is quite impressive. It can generate high-quality 1080p videos over a minute long from a wide range of inputs: text, images, videos, or a mixture. Allowing users to easily edit videos just by resubmitting them as input. From what can be seen in their samples, the model really nails interpreting and understanding natural language and exhibits a sophisticated grasp of visual semantics. These models are becoming powerful, providing use for large companies and producing power for smaller businesses and individuals. With this technology's continuous improvement and broader availability, we can anticipate a much more affordable and efficient way of creating high-production content. We've already seen it used in commercials and movies; it won't be long before it becomes a staple in creative industries worldwide. #google #genai #digitalmedia

Cobus Heyl's article titled "The NYT v OpenAI: What about smaller publishers?" provides an insightful exploration into the complexities surrounding the lawsuit between The New York Times (NYT) and OpenAI. Heyl outlines the challenges in establishing a "fair value model" for scraping publisher content and highlights the difficulty in creating formulas that work across various sectors. The discussion with UK solicitor JJ Shaw sheds light on the intricate legal landscape and the potential implications for smaller publishers and independent creators. Heyl's mention of the "move fast and break things" mantra, attributed humorously to Mark Zuckerberg, adds a layer of context to OpenAI's actions. The article suggests that OpenAI may not have initially navigated rights, permissions, and clearances adequately when training models like ChatGPT 3.5 and 4. It raises the crucial point that once technological advancements gain rapid consumer adoption, regulators often have to adapt after the fact rather than setting ground rules at the start. And that's the problem...

📰 The Financial Times and OpenAI have just announced a strategic content licensing partnership. It will allow OpenAI to utilize FT's content to enhance the capabilities of ChatGPT 🤖 . Furthermore, under this deal, ChatGPT will be allowed to provide summaries of FT articles, complete with links 🔗 directing users back to the full articles. This deal is among several others OpenAI has secured over the past year link: https://lnkd.in/eGRCveKT #InnovationInMedia #AI #OpenAI #FinancialTimes #DigitalJournalism #TechNews

TIME has struck a multi-year content licensing deal and strategic partnership with OpenAI. OpenAI will have access to Time's archives from the last 101 years to train its large language models and use for responses to user queries in its consumer-facing products. Real-time content will be used to help answer user queries as news unfolds. Other Deals for OpenAI: The Atlantic, Vox Media, News Corp. Source: Axios ChatGPT #AI Alden Global Capital The New York Times Cohere #news #archives The Globe and Mail Toronto Star Radical Ventures #publishing IAB Canada Sonia Carreno IAB Tech Lab Google DeepMind Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program Microsoft Research #publishing

The Financial Times has struck a content licensing deal with Open AI which will grant access to Chat GPT users to FT reporting.... The likelihood is that other publishers will follow suit. But my question is, what what does this mean for newspaper paywalls? Why would you continue to pay for a subscription for the newspaper if you can just get the info from AI? Also...and this goes out to my PR friends...how on earth does this work from an NLA perspective?! The FT was one of the first newspapers to hire an 'AI Editor', so it's clearly setting AI trends for other papers to follow. My fear is that we'll end up in a world with AI generated content being read by AI editors which in turn is read by AI bots to inform more AI content...and round and round we go with little or no human involvement. How does that help inform, educate, inspire or entertain? John Harrington - thoughts? I'm sure this will be a topic for your next podcast! For those of you without an FT subscription: https://lnkd.in/er6dda2T