The Washington Post has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to bring its news coverage to ChatGPT. The popular chatbot will now display summaries, quotes, and links to the publication’s original reporting in relevant queries.
“ChatGPT will highlight The Post’s journalism across politics, global affairs, business, technology, and more, always with clear attribution and direct links to full articles so people can explore topics in greater depth and context,” explains the announcement post from the news publication.
The partnership aims to make reliable and factual information readily available on ChatGPT without causing copyright infringement or plagiarism issues. This is also separate from The Washington Post’s Ask The Post AI. The experimental chatbot can talk to the publication’s readers and provide information regarding its published articles since at least 2016.
Apart from the partnership, the publication continues to be LLM-agnostic, meaning it doesn’t rely on a single large language model (LLM) to build its products. Being LLM-agnostic lets companies create their own AI-powered products or solutions while reducing risk and future-proofing their projects.
The Washington Post isn’t the only news publication partnering with OpenAI either. More than 20 news publishers are partnering with the AI giant to bring its technology to over 160 outlets and “hundreds of content brands across more than 20 languages.”
OpenAI’s increasing media partnerships are mostly due to its attempt to reduce copyright and plagiarism problems arising from AI models claiming the internet as their training data and presenting information to users without proper attribution. The company’s multi-year partnership with News Corp in 2024 also gives it access to both current and archived content from big publications like The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Daily Telegraph, among others. Publications like The Guardian, Associated Press, and New York University have also struck a deal with OpenAI.
However, the New York Times continues to be a thorn in OpenAI’s way, especially now that its 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI has been allowed to go through. The publication also sent a cease and desist notice to Perplexity AI for scraping its content.
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