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Media and data company Thomson Reuters plans to license content to AI companies, Bloomberg reported.
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Its chief executive said the company was “open-minded” about working with models written in major languages.
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Other publishers, including Axel Springer, owner of Business Insider, have made deals with AI.
News and information company Thomson Reuters plans to license some of its content to companies that create generative artificial intelligence tools, Bloomberg reported Monday.
The company’s top executive said Thomson Reuters was “open-minded” about working with providers of extended language models, or LLMs.
“We’ve had discussions with a number of these suppliers,” the company’s CEO, Steve Hasker, told Bloomberg.
Thomson Reuters offers products across a variety of industries, from its legal research tool, Westlaw, to its news and media division, Reuters. The company’s vast data sets could be particularly useful for companies like OpenAI, Microsoft or Google that are building generative AI capabilities. Access to information from news sources could become increasingly important for AI companies if more users turn to chatbots rather than traditional search tools when seeking current information.
Some media companies, including the owner of Business Insider Axel Springer, have already signed licensing agreements with AI providers. Axel Springer’s partnership with OpenAI will integrate content from publisher properties such as BI, Politico and Bild into ChatGPT results, along with story attribution and links to the original articles. Apple is also in discussions with some news publishers to access content to bolster its generative AI efforts, according to a report. New York Times report.
How LLMs are trained and what constitutes fair use of content has become a hot-button issue in the rapidly growing AI sector. Authorsartists and others assigns have signed letters or filed lawsuits against some major AI companies, alleging that they used copyrighted material to train models without authorization. Music industry lawyers are develop playbooks to protect artists and labels from an onslaught of AI imitators. And the New York Times filed a complaint in December against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging “unlawful use of the Times’ work to create artificial intelligence products that compete with it.”
As of press time, a Thomson Reuters spokesperson did not provide additional comment to BI on the Bloomberg report.
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