OpenAI has landed a new content deal with the FT. However as a substitute of being a merely easy deal through which OpenAI will get phrases, and FT will get cash, the 2 are teaming up a bit extra deeply. Look to see FT.com hyperlinks in ChaptGPT sooner or later.
However the FT-OpenAI tie-up tells us a bit greater than that one media firm will quickly have a couple of extra ducats in its pockets. No, it’s yet one more OpenAI deal that can see the Microsoft-backed AI store additional cement its capacity to ingest coaching materials with out authorized threat, and begin to pay among the suppliers of mentioned materials for his or her work.
All good, proper? In a way, however there’s a priority that as some AI corporations work to begin paying for coaching knowledge after they consumed oceans of it, they might wind up pulling the training ladders up behind them. If that occurs, different AI corporations which may need to comply with of their footsteps might discover steeper, and more expensive, the identical path that the OpenAIs of the world already hiked.
It’s a bizarre and irksome state of affairs through which you need to see honest fee for supplies used, but additionally make sure that we don’t hand the way forward for AI to a bunch of already rich corporations. That may simply cement oligopoly. And, in fact, media corporations which might be spending all their cash and extra to report and write want honest comp. These are the stakes. Let’s discuss it!
