Undoubtedly, we come to talk about news that is more than interesting in the field of artificial intelligence, and more specifically in the case of ChatGPT. As some of you may already know, OpenAI, the creators of the aforementioned chat, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the well-known media outlet Financial Times, and the objective of this is what we are going to tell you now.
As announced in the official statement shared by OpenAI, with this agreement, the two companies will work together to improve ChatGPT and provide it with attributed content. They also indicate that this collaboration will serve to incorporate Financial Times journalism into ChatGPT and develop new artificial intelligence products and features for the readers of the mentioned media, as stated in the press release.
OpenAI and Financial Times partner with this great deal
Therefore, “ChatGPT users will be able to see selected attributed summaries, quotes, and enriched links to FT journalism in response to relevant queries,” they indicate. The news doesn’t end there, as it has also been revealed that Financial Times employees use ChatGPT Enterprises, the enterprise version of OpenAI’s conversational AI chat. They use it to “benefit from the gains in creativity and productivity” provided by AI.
“The Financial Times is committed to human journalism, produced by our unparalleled newsroom, and this agreement will expand the reach of that work while deepening our understanding of readers’ demands and interests,” said John Ridding, CEO of the FT Group, in the statement.
“Apart from the benefits for the Financial Times, there are broader implications for the industry. It is correct, of course, that artificial intelligence platforms pay publishers for the use of their material. OpenAI understands the importance of transparency, attribution, and compensation, all of which are essential to us. At the same time, users clearly want these products to contain reliable sources,” he adds.
“Our partnership and ongoing dialogue with the Financial Times aims to find creative and productive ways for AI to empower news organizations and journalists, and enrich the ChatGPT experience with real-time world-class journalism for millions of people worldwide,” adds Brad Lightcap, COO of OpenAI.
In any case, this is a great advancement for ChatGPT to be able to offer more accurate information to its users, obtaining the most recent information and news through sources that are restricted for other competitors. That is, this type of agreements allows the mentioned chat to increasingly leave behind the practice of obtaining information from the web without any verified sources.
In fact, it is worth mentioning that OpenAI has reached content agreements with several news groups, such as the Spanish group Prisa Media or the French Le Monde. If this continues, it could ensure that the information is reliable and that the content creators (the corresponding media) are paid for their work, since without these types of agreements, the AI associated with Microsoft would continue to collect a large amount of data without any attribution or compensation.
