Time magazine has signed a multi-year content deal with OpenAI, giving the ChatGPT developer access to its archive of news content, the companies announced on Thursday.
The companies added in a statement that the chatbot will respond to users’ questions with citations and links to original sources on Time.com. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The artificial intelligence company has also signed similar deals in the past few months with Washington Post parent News Corp, the Financial Times, Business Insider owner Axel Springer, France’s Le Monde and Spain-based Prisa Media.
Some media companies, including The New York Times and The Intercept, have previously sued OpenAI over its use of journalism, but these content partnerships are essential to training AI models.
Such deals could also present lucrative opportunities for news publishers that have traditionally been shut out of the profits that internet giants generate by distributing their content.
In May, Microsoft-backed OpenAI signed content and product partnerships with The Atlantic and Vox Media.
