The Financial Times inks new licensing deal with OpenAI | Nieman Journalism Lab

The Financial Times is the latest major news publisher to sign a content licensing deal with OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT.

The new deal will allow ChatGPT to pull information in real time from the FT’s published stories when answering user prompts. Details taken from those stories will appear in ChatGPT as a summary or quote, with a link to the specific article being cited.

Kayla Wood, a spokesperson for OpenAI, confirmed the deal also gives the company access to the FT’s archive, including content behind the publication’s standard and premium paywalls. Under the terms of the deal, this archive can be used to train ChatGPT’s underlying models.

The new deal only applies to the FT, and won’t extend to other brands owned by Nikkei, the publication’s Japanese parent company.

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