A new news organization joins OpenAI.
As part of the agreement, reports from The Guardian will be included in ChatGPT.
The Guardian Media Group, which owns the newspapers The Guardian and The Observer, has established a collaboration with OpenAI. This agreement will allow The Guardian's reports to be integrated as a news source within ChatGPT, along with excerpts from articles and brief summaries. In exchange, OpenAI will provide Guardian Media Group with access to ChatGPT Enterprise, a tool that the company intends to use to develop new products, features, and tools.
Keith Underwood, Chief Financial and Operations Officer of Guardian Media Group, stated that this new alliance with OpenAI represents the intellectual property rights and the value of its award-winning journalism, expanding its reach and impact toward new audiences and innovative services on the platform.
Guardian Media Group joins a growing list of news publishers that have begun collaborating with OpenAI after an initial period of uncertainty regarding the company and its business model. What started as a limited collaboration with The Associated Press in 2023 has evolved into a significant increase in agreements with major publishers in the English-speaking world.
In some respects, The Guardian has been more proactive than other outlets. In 2023, the newspaper published an article detailing its approach to generative artificial intelligence. A year later, it announced a partnership with ProRata, a company that has developed a platform for AIs to attribute search results and share revenue with content owners. Today's announcement also comes after a major coalition of publishers, including The Guardian, filed a lawsuit against Cohere, a Canadian startup, accusing it of unlawfully using over 4,000 copyrighted works to train its AI models.
