The Washington Post Joins Forces with OpenAI to Bring News to ChatGPT
The Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has teamed up with AI company OpenAI. The two companies announced a “strategic partnership” to help make The Post’s news stories easier to access through ChatGPT.
With this deal, users who ask ChatGPT about the news may see short summaries, quotes, and links to full articles from The Washington Post. This includes stories about politics, business, global news, tech, and more. The Post said all content shared will include “clear attribution and direct links to full articles.”
According to The Post, this partnership shows both companies want to help people find trustworthy information more easily. “Especially on complex or fast-moving topics, where timely, well-sourced reporting, like that of The Post, matters most,” the newspaper explained.
OpenAI shared that it has made similar deals with more than 20 news companies, covering over 160 outlets and “hundreds of content brands” in more than 20 languages. Other media partners include News Corp, Associated Press, The Atlantic, Time, Vox Media, and Condé Nast.
However, not all publishers are happy with OpenAI. The New York Times and some other newspapers have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using their content without permission to train AI systems.
Peter Elkins-Williams, head of global partnerships at The Washington Post, said:
“We’re all in on meeting our audiences where they are. Ensuring ChatGPT users have our impactful reporting at their fingertips builds on our commitment to provide access where, how and when our audiences want it.”
OpenAI says ChatGPT now has more than 500 million users each week.
Varun Shetty, head of media partnerships at OpenAI, added:
“By investing in high-quality journalism by partners like The Washington Post, we’re helping ensure our users get timely, trustworthy information when they need it.”
The Washington Post has also been exploring its own AI tools. This includes projects like Ask the Post AI and Climate Answers, which aim to use AI to help readers better understand the news. The paper also offers AI-powered summaries and audio for some stories. It says it remains “LLM-agnostic,” meaning it is open to working with different AI platforms as it develops more of its own tools.
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