Journalists are raising concerns as publications sign content deals with AI firms, including OpenAI. Vox Media’s president, Pam Wasserstein, recently announced a content licensing deal with OpenAI, granting the AI company access to Vox’s current content and entire archive of journalistic work to train models like ChatGPT. This news came as a surprise to many journalists at Vox Media.
Similarly, The Atlantic signed a comparable deal with OpenAI, leaving its journalists in the dark until the last moment. Both Vox Media and The Atlantic have previously published pieces critical of OpenAI and generative AI, expressing concerns about the environmental impact of running large language models and the lack of trustworthiness in the company.
The journalists are worried that these deals could harm writers and journalism as a whole. They are seeking answers from their employers about the benefits of these agreements for them. In response to the increasing number of AI media deals, news guilds are accelerating negotiations to implement AI protections similar to those fought for by Hollywood writing teams.
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