OpenAI and German media giant Axel Springer have signed a first-of-its-kind deal that would see the AI developer pay to license content from the latter’s news sites.
The deal, announced on Wednesday, is one of the first examples in which a media company has been able to secure payment for use of its content by AI developers. Content from Axel Springer, which owns Politico and Business Insider in the U.S. and several publications in Germany, will be used to train OpenAI’s AI models and will populate answers in ChatGPT, the chatbot that made it famous.
