OpenAI Joins Hearst to Highlight Content from 20 Magazines, 40 Newspapers

OpenAI partners with Hearst to showcase content from more than 20 magazines and 40 newspapers, including Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Hearst owns the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and other magazines. OpenAI and Hearst have announced a partnership. OpenAI said on Tuesday that its products, like ChatGPT and SearchGPT, will be able to show content from more than 20 magazine brands and more than 40 newspapers as a result of the partnership.

There was a statement from Hearst Magazines President Debi Chirichella that said, “Our partnership with OpenAI will help us shape the future of magazine content.” The media company said in the announcement that as part of the deal, Hearst content in ChatGPT will have proper citations and links to the original Hearst sources. Heart’s newspaper and non-magazine businesses will not be part of the partnership.

The deal is the latest in a recent trend of media companies teaming up with AI startups to make content. In August, OpenAI announced a similar partnership with Condé Nast. Condé Nast owns Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired.

After being accused of plagiarism for more than a month, Perplexity AI launched a revenue-sharing model for publishers in July. Some of the first companies to join Perplexity AI’s “Publishers Program” were Fortune, Time, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, Der Spiegel, and WordPress.com.

OpenAI and Time made a “multi-year content deal” public in June. This deal will give OpenAI access to both new and old articles from Time’s more than 100-year history.

The magazine says that OpenAI will be able to use Time’s content “to enhance its products” or, more likely, to train its AI models. It will be able to show Time’s content in its ChatGPT chatbot in response to user questions.

OpenAI and News Corp. announced a partnership in May. Through this partnership, OpenAI can read both new and old articles from The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron’s, the New York Post, and other magazines.

Reddit also made a deal with OpenAI in May so that the company that makes ChatGPT could use Reddit’s content to train its AI models.

Media Outlets Take Legal Action Against AI Firms

Other news outlets and media outlets are working hard to protect their businesses as AI-generated content becomes increasingly common.

The Centre for Investigative Reporting, which is the oldest nonprofit newsroom in the country, sued OpenAI and its main backer, Microsoft, in federal court in June for copyright violations.

Before this lawsuit, similar suits were filed by the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Daily News.

In December, the New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, saying that their use of its journalistic content in ChatGPT training data violated its intellectual property rights. Filed in the U.S.

District Court for the Southern District of New York, the newspaper said it wants Microsoft and OpenAI to pay “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” for “unlawful copying and use of the Times’s uniquely valuable works.” OpenAI didn’t agree with how the publication described what happened.