OpenAI is working with another publisher to move toward a licensing approach to training materials. Dotdash Meredith, owner of people and better homes and gardenswill license its content to OpenAI to train ChatGPT, and publishers will use the AI company’s models to enhance their internal ad targeting tools.
As part of the arrangement, ChatGPT will display content and links to Dotdash Meredith publications. It also provides OpenAI with fully licensed training materials from trusted publications.
This is a welcome change after the company got into trouble for allegedly using content for training purposes without permission. New York Times and Alden Capital Group (which owns chicago tribunee. new york daily news and orlando sentinel) has sued the makers of ChatGPT, accusing it of using its content without permission. So did comedian Sarah Silverman and a conspiracy-mongering car salesman (the latter for different reasons).
“We are not shy about admitting that AI platforms should pay publishers for content and that content must be properly attributed,” Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel wrote in a press release. “This deal demonstrates OpenAI’s commitment to working with creators and Publishers are doing a great job working together and ensuring a healthy internet for the future.”
Prior to the Dotdash Meredith deal, OpenAI and financial times. “It is certainly right that AI platforms pay publishers for the use of their material,” John Ridding, the newspaper’s chief executive, said in a statement last month.
Dotdash Meredith, also owns Investment Encyclopedia, Food and victorye. very cool and very good, will use OpenAI’s models to enhance its D/Cipher ad targeting tool. The publisher said its ad system “connects advertisers directly with consumers based on the context of consuming content without the use of personal identifiers like cookies.” It’s an industry-wide shift coming as Google moves toward a A future without cookies – albeit later than initially advertised.
