Open Eye has partnered with CNN, Fox and Time to protect the license of news content

Artificial intelligence (AI) developer OpenAI has partnered with major new corporations CNN, Fox Corp. to license their news content. And he's in talks with Time, according to a Bloomberg report.

OpenAI is reportedly looking to strike deals with media giants that produce news, video and other digital media content to make its chatbots more accurate and up-to-date.

For example, OpenAI said it is negotiating licensing deals with CNN to train ChatGPT and make its content available on OpenAI products. Both CNN and Fox are said to be discussing licensing text, video and images.

On January 9, Fox Corporation announced the launch of a Polygon-based blockchain platform that will help AI companies verify their use of its content.

Time CEO Jessica Sibley released a statement saying that they are in discussions with OpenAI and are “hopeful of reaching an agreement that reflects the true value of our content.”

At the time of this writing, OpenAI's free, publicly available AI chatbot ChatGPT-3.5 is equipped with only training data until January 2022.

However, in September 2023, OpenAI announced that its premium and enterprise models running ChatGPT-4 will now be able to browse the Internet and not connect to the training schedule.

OpenAI's initiative to create licensing agreements with media companies will save it from headaches down the road when it comes to copyright infringement.

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This comes amid several lawsuits against OpenAI for copyright infringement of content it used to train its AI models.

Most notable is the December 27 lawsuit filed by The New York Times that OpenAI's use of its content in training is “not fair use by any standard” and that the use of such content endangers its journalism.

A week later, another lawsuit was filed against OpenAI by authors Nicholas Basbans and Nicholas Gage, who argued that copyright holders should be compensated for using their work in AI training.

On January 9, OpenAI publicly responded to the NYT lawsuit, calling it “useless” and stating that it will discuss content licensing and AI integration cooperation and partnerships with media organizations.

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