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"This past week, Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate that owns
Politico and
Business Insider, signed a “multiyear licensing deal” with
OpenAI worth tens of millions of Euros. According to the company, the deal
“will enrich users’ experience with ChatGPT by adding recent and authoritative
content on a wide variety of topics,” in the form of “summaries of selected
global news content.” Its stories will also be used to train OpenAI’s models.
It’s a superficially familiar arrangement. For more than a decade, social media
firms and more conventional media companies have tested out dozens of
permutations of the tech-media partnership, with mixed results. This isn’t the
first deal between OpenAI and a media organization, either: the
Associated
Press partnered with the company earlier this year. The Axel Springer deal,
however, is the most comprehensive of its kind and a template, probably, for
more to come.
It’s easy to fold such deals into the prevailing narrative of AI dominance, as
venerable publishers line up to partner with tech firms once again, despite
what happened last time around, and the time before that, and the time before
that — to imagine that the Axel Springers of the world have no choice but to
throw in with companies poised to remake the world, with or without their
cooperation. Which may be how they see it. At least they’re getting paid.
Really, though, as they become more common, partnerships like this should
complicate this story of inevitability for companies like OpenAI, the
world-beating firm that, before it takes over the economy, and before it must
be
stopped from taking over the entire world, must first, for some reason,
pay for a big subscription to
Politico Pro."
Via
Garbage Day: The politics of cringe
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-politics-of-cringe
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
