OpenAI has announced collaborations with Le Monde and Prisa Media to enhance its ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool with news-related capabilities.
This partnership allows OpenAI to utilize content from Le Monde and Prisa Media publications, including El Pais, Cinco Dias, and El Huffpost, to train its AI models.
Brad Lightcap, Chief Operating Officer of OpenAI, expressed the goal of enabling ChatGPT users to engage with news content in interactive and insightful ways through these partnerships. In the coming months, ChatGPT users can expect to receive news summaries from these publishers along with links to the original articles, facilitating a richer news experience.
Louis Dreyfus, the chief executive of Le Monde, emphasized the significance of the partnership with OpenAI in broadening their audience reach and maintaining their dedication to delivering accurate, verified, and balanced news content on a large scale.
Highlighting Le Monde’s status as France’s premier news source, with 600,000 subscribers and over 2 million daily users, Dreyfus underscored the strategic importance of collaborating with OpenAI. He emphasized that this partnership is crucial for ensuring the dissemination of reliable information to AI users while safeguarding Le Monde’s journalistic integrity and revenue streams.
While financial terms of the collaborations were not revealed, Prisa Media’s CEO, Carlos Nunez, hailed the partnership with OpenAI as a significant stride towards the future of journalism. He emphasized the fusion of technology and human expertise to better serve readers.
OpenAI’s alliance with Prisa Media adds to its previous partnerships with The Associated Press and Axel Springer. These collaborations underscore OpenAI’s commitment to advancing AI-driven news solutions.
On a broader scale, the European Parliament granted final approval on Wednesday to groundbreaking regulations governing artificial intelligence, encompassing powerful systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The AI Act zeroes in on the riskier applications of the technology, both in the private and public sectors. It imposes stricter obligations on providers and enforces more transparent guidelines for potent models like ChatGPT, while outright banning tools deemed excessively hazardous.
Since the emergence of Microsoft-backed ChatGPT in late 2022, Brussels has been racing to implement these new regulations, recognizing the transformative potential of AI technology.
Generative AI, epitomized by ChatGPT’s astonishing human-like capabilities, initially sparked widespread enthusiasm. From deciphering intricate text to composing poetry in seconds or acing medical exams, its feats captured global attention.
However, this excitement quickly gave way to apprehension as the risks became apparent, particularly concerning AI-generated audio and video deepfakes, which have the potential to amplify disinformation campaigns.
