Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, December 29th, 2023.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Open AI has been talking to everybody in media, turns out but how would a partnership

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tech sources say open AI has held talks with major news publishers including Gannett, News Corp, and IAC on the price

and terms of licensing their content.

Again, expect to hear a lot of this in the

coming months the web is sort of tapped out as a source of training data for

AI companies, what with the web getting flooded with AI generated content, sort of an

oroboros situation, so open AI and others need higher quality training content.

Ironically, the bots need us, need humanity to evolve further, quoting the Times, which remember is

currently suing Open AI.

The Times said that before suing, it had been talking with the company for months about a deal and it was not alone.

Other news organizations including Gannett, the largest US newspaper company, News Corp, the owner of the Wall Street Journal, IAC the Digital Colossus behind the Daily Beast

and the magazine publisher dot-dash Meredith have been in talks with open AI said three people

familiar with the negotiations who requested anonymity to discuss the confidential talks.

The News Media Alliance, which represents more than 2,200 news organizations in North America,

has also been talking with Open AI about coming up with a framework for a deal that would suit its members a person

familiar with the talk said Microsoft which is open AI's biggest investor and is

incorporating open AI's technology into its products has held talks as well. We've had thoughtful conversations with a number

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