News Corp and OpenAI Announce Landmark Multi-Year Global Partnership

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A landmark multi-year global partnership with News Corp

We’re joining forces with News Corp to support the highest journalistic standards and enrich our products with its premium journalism.

News Corp and OpenAI today announced a historic, multi-year agreement to bring News Corp news content to OpenAI. Through this partnership, OpenAI has permission to display content from News Corp mastheads in response to user questions and to enhance its products, with the ultimate objective of providing people the ability to make informed choices based on reliable information and news sources.

OpenAI will receive access to current and archived content from News Corp’s major news and information publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch*, Investor’s Business Daily, FN,* and New York Post; The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun; The Australian , news.com.au*, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier Mail, The Advertiser,* and Herald Sun; and others. The partnership does not include access to content from any of News Corp’s other businesses.

In addition to providing content, News Corp will share journalistic expertise to help ensure the highest journalism standards are present across OpenAI’s offering.

“We believe an historic agreement will set new standards for veracity, for virtue and for value in the digital age,” said Robert Thomson, Chief Executive of News Corp. “We are delighted to have found principled partners in Sam Altman and his trusty, talented team who understand the commercial and social significance of journalists and journalism. This landmark accord is not an end, but the beginning of a beautiful friendship in which we are jointly committed to creating and delivering insight and integrity instantaneously.”

“Our partnership with News Corp is a proud moment for journalism and technology,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. “We greatly value News Corp’s history as a leader in reporting breaking news around the world, and are excited to enhance our users’ access to its high quality reporting. Together, we are setting the foundation for a future where AI deeply respects, enhances, and upholds the standards of world-class journalism.”

https://openai.com/index/news-corp-and-openai-sign-landmark-multi-year-global-partnership/

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This is absolutely disgusting. I will be canceling over this, New Corp is a misinformation company. An entertainment company. “Premium Journalism “ is the biggest lie ever. I am so disappointed with OpenAI over this and I’m sure many will follow.

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Of all the news sources you could have got you went with this. It is a major concern in terms of how it might dilute the quality of your model and create bias and misinformation

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Absolutely one of the decisions of all time.

News Corp is not a company that I put ANY amount of trust in. This has thoroughly compromised my trust in OpenAI as a company if they are willing to sink to these depths. Absolutely disgusting.

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People pay a lot for a WSJ subscription because they want facts and not misinformation. You’re likely conflating it with the opinion side, as many do.

I do agree this will make OpenAI likely smarter about newsworthy right-leaning topics and less knowledgeable about left-leaning topics. So you probably won’t be able to get the latest in what’s happening with recent inside baseball of socialism related topics, for example.

My sense is this won’t be a huge issue in terms of perspective bias. It’s likely they train on a lot of research which tends to be more left leaning I’ve found.

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