Condé Nast, the company that controls the periodicals, has reached an agreement with the artificial intelligence startup.
Condé Nast, a media conglomerate that includes journals such as The New Yorker, Vogue, and Wired, has announced a relationship with OpenAI that will last for many years. The partnership will allow information from Condé Nast titles to be displayed in ChatGPT as well as SearchGPT, the company’s prototype artificial intelligence-powered search engine. The agreement comes at a time when there is a rising worry around the unauthorised usage of content by AI businesses as it pertains to publishers. A cease-and-desist letter was delivered by Condé Nast to the artificial intelligence search firm Perplexity last month. The letter accused Perplexity of plagiarizing Condé Nast’s content in order to create solutions.
The CEO of Condé Nast, Roger Lynch, published a note to his workers that was originally reported by Max Tani of Semafor. In the memo, Lynch stated that “over the last decade, news and digital media have faced steep challenges as many technology companies eroded publishers’ ability to monetize content, most recently with traditional search.” We are able to continue to preserve and invest in our journalism and creative pursuits because to our collaboration with OpenAI, which is beginning to make up for some of the revenue that we have lost. Regarding the amount of money that OpenAI will pay Condé Nast for the cooperation, it is not entirely apparent.
With this step, Condé Nast becomes the most recent publisher to join the expanding number of publishers that have entered into agreements with OpenAI. A number of these publications are among them: News Corporation, Vox, The Atlantic, Time, and Axel Springer. On the other hand, not everyone is thrilled with the concept. During the course of the previous year, the New York Times initiated legal action against OpenAI for allegedly utilizing material from the publisher’s stories in ChatGPT’s responses.
In response to these concerns, Lynch has been quite vocal. In January, he warned that “many” media companies could face financial ruin by the time it would take for litigations against AI companies to conclude and called upon Congress to take “immediate action” to take “immediate action” and clarify that publishers must be compensated by AI companies for both training and output if they use their content. Earlier this month, three senators presented the COPIED ACT, a law that seeks to safeguard artists and journalists from having their content scraped by artificial intelligence corporations without their permission.
Recently, Forbes and Wired accused Perplexity of stealing content. Now, the company is planning to split a portion of possible advertising profits with publishers who sign up for a newly created Publishers’ Program. This program is being offered to publishers that sign up for the program.