Media Briefing: What The Washington Post’s deal with OpenAI says about the future of AI content licensing
This week’s Media Briefing looks at The Washington Post’s deal with OpenAI to use the news org’s content in its ChatGPT search product, and what it says about the future of licensing deals between AI companies and publishers.
The Washington Post has become the latest major publisher to strike a licensing deal with OpenAI, joining a growing cohort that now spans more than 20 news organizations.
It’s part of a familiar pattern: every few months, OpenAI locks in another publisher to bolster its content pipeline. But the terms of these agreements seem to be quietly evolving — subtly shifting away from the explicit language around training data that defined earlier deals, and raising fresh questions about what these partnerships now mean.
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