The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen which displays output from ChatGPT, March 21, 2023, in Boston. / Photo: AP
OpenAI's recent partnership with another major player in the world of media"certainly ensures that News Corp generates revenue streams from the use of its content to train AI models, but the amount OpenAI is paying under this deal is not high relative to the value of the data," professor of digital communication and culture at The University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Terry Flew, tells"For OpenAI and others in this space, such as Google, it...
Several companies, like the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, have gone the other route and sued OpenAI and Microsoft for using their articles to train AI. According to Columbia Journalism School professor Soma, chatbots are also prone to hallucination and editorialising.OpenAI teams up with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT experience
According to Pachal, Google is a"big player influencing the urgency of all this." He says publishers will suffer reduced traffic as the tech company's AI Overviews feature, which includes AI-generated summaries at the top of its search engine, becomes the norm. Alfred Hermida, a professor at the University of British Columbia School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, where he served as director for over five years, explains tothat news websites could potentially lose out on casual visitors seeking quick news updates, resulting in a significant decline in traffic when this happens.