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A running list of all the news organizations partnering with or suing OpenAI

5/29/24 1:59PM

Updated 12/23/24 1:35PM

OpenAI recently welcomed Future — which includes Tom’s Guide, TechRadar, Marie Claire, and PC Gamer — into the fold, making them the latest news organizations to license their journalism to train the ChatGPT maker’s AI. That seems to be the path of least resistance, seeing as it’s likely that OpenAI has already used that data to train its models. The company hasn’t always been the best citizen.

The harder path? Suing the company for copyright infringement, as the New York Times and some others have done.

Here’s are running list of which news orgs partnering with and who’s suing OpenAI.

Partnering with OpenAI:

Atlantic
Associated Press
Axel Springer (Politico, Business Insider)
Condé Nast (Bon Appétit, GQ, New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Wired)
Dotdash Meredith (People Magazine)
Financial Times
Future (Tom’s Guide, TechRadar, Marie Claire, PC Gamer)
GEDI (La Repubblica and La Stampa)
Hearst (Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Runner’s World, Women’s Health)
Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative and Fellowship program (Chicago Public Media, The Minnesota Star Tribune, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times)
Le Monde
Prisa Media
News Corp (Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch)
Time
Vox Media

Suing OpenAI:

Alden Global Capital (New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Sun Sentinel of Florida, San Jose Mercury News, Denver Post, Orange County Register, and St. Paul Pioneer Press)
Asian News International
Canadian news publishers (The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia, and CBC/Radio-Canada)
Center for Investigative Reporting (Mother Jones, Reveal)
Intercept
New York Times
Raw Story (Alternet)

Likely not inking a deal but no lawsuit:

The Information

UPDATE (Dec 23, 2024): Added Future, GEDI, Hearst, and Lenfest Institute to list of OpenAI’s partners; added Asian News International and some Canadian news publishers to list of those suing OpenAI

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The New York Times, Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity

The New York Times is suing the AI search engine startup Perplexity, alleging repeated copyright violations.

In the complaint, the Times accuses Perplexity of scraping the company’s content and generating outputs that are “identical or substantially similar” to Times content:

“Upon information and belief, Perplexity has unlawfully copied, distributed, and displayed millions of copyrighted Times stories, videos, podcasts, images and other works to power its products and tools.”

The Times also alleges that Perplexity’s AI tool generates “hallucinations” and falsely attribute them to the Times, creating confusion that harms the company’s brand.

In a separate suit filed Thursday, the Chicago Tribune accused Perplexity of similar copyright violations.

Perplexity’s “answer engine” made early inroads in an attempt to replace traditional web searches with AI-powered responses, but its larger competitors such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have been adding similar features. OpenAI recently released its own AI-powered web browser, ChatGPT Atlas, which challenges Perplexity’s Comet browser.

Jesse Dwyer, Head of Communication for Perplexity told Sherwood News in a statement:

“Publishers have been suing new tech companies for a hundred years, starting with radio, TV, the internet, social media and now AI. Fortunately it’s never worked, or we’d all be talking about this by telegraph.”

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“Upon information and belief, Perplexity has unlawfully copied, distributed, and displayed millions of copyrighted Times stories, videos, podcasts, images and other works to power its products and tools.”

The Times also alleges that Perplexity’s AI tool generates “hallucinations” and falsely attribute them to the Times, creating confusion that harms the company’s brand.

In a separate suit filed Thursday, the Chicago Tribune accused Perplexity of similar copyright violations.

Jesse Dwyer, Head of Communication for Perplexity told Sherwood News in a statement:

“Publishers have been suing new tech companies for a hundred years, starting with radio, TV, the internet, social media and now AI. Fortunately it’s never worked, or we’d all be talking about this by telegraph.”

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