Hearst and OpenAI ink content deal, featuring content from Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

• Hearst, the media conglomerate that owns outlets such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and Elle, has partnered with OpenAI.
• According to a release, the company's products, including ChatGPT and SearchGPT, will be able to display content from over 20 magazine brands and over 40 newspapers.
• AI startups are increasingly partnering with media outlets on content deals.

Hearst, the media conglomerate that owns outlets such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and Elle, has partnered with OpenAI.

OpenAI's ChatGPT and SearchGPT will now display content from over 20 magazine brands and 40 newspapers, as announced by the company on Tuesday.

Hearst Magazines President Debi Chirichella stated that their partnership with OpenAI will aid in shaping the future of magazine content.

The partnership between Hearst and ChatGPT will include appropriate citations and links to the original Hearst sources, but only Hearst's non-magazine and newspaper businesses will not be included.

AI startups are increasingly partnering with media outlets on content deals.

In August, OpenAI formed a partnership with Condé Nast, the owner of media brands including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired.

In July, Perplexity AI introduced a revenue-sharing model for publishers, following over a month of plagiarism allegations. The first to join the "Publishers Program" were media outlets and content platforms such as Fortune, Time, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, Der Spiegel, and WordPress.com.

In June, OpenAI and Time announced a "multi-year content deal" that will enable OpenAI to access current and archived articles from over a century of Time's history. Through this agreement, OpenAI will be able to display Time's content within its ChatGPT chatbot in response to user queries and utilize it to improve its products, most likely by training its AI models.

In May, OpenAI formed partnerships with News Corp and Reddit, granting it access to articles from The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron's, the New York Post, and other publications, as well as training its AI models on Reddit's content.

As AI-generated content becomes increasingly common, other news publications and media outlets are actively defending their businesses.

In June, the Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit newsroom established in the United States, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its primary sponsor, Microsoft, in federal court, accusing them of copyright infringement. This legal action followed similar suits brought by other publications, including The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Daily News.

In December, the New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing them of intellectual property violations related to the use of its journalistic content in ChatGPT's training data. The newspaper claimed it sought to hold the companies accountable for "billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages" resulting from the "unlawful copying and use of the Times's uniquely valuable works." OpenAI disputed the Times's portrayal of the situation.

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