Time and OpenAI sign a multiyear agreement to enhance ChatGPT with journalistic content.

• Time and OpenAI have struck a "multi-year content deal" that grants OpenAI access to current and historical articles from over a century of Time's publications.
• The startup will be able to show Time's content in its ChatGPT chatbot and utilize it to improve its products or train its AI models as part of the deal.
• In May, OpenAI and News Corp. announced a partnership that granted OpenAI access to current and archived articles from News Corp.'s outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron's, The New York Post and more.

On Thursday, Time magazine and OpenAI announced a "multi-year content deal" that grants OpenAI access to current and historical articles from over a century of Time's history.

The startup backed by Time will be able to display Time's content within its ChatGPT chatbot in response to user questions and use it to enhance its products or train its AI models, according to a press release.

The release stated that OpenAI will cite and link back to Time's content in their use of it.

In exchange for access to OpenAI's technology, Time will create new products for its customers, according to the release.

In May, OpenAI announced a partnership with News Corp. that enables the company to access current and archived articles from News Corp.'s outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron's, The New York Post and more. Additionally, Reddit announced in May that it would partner with OpenAI, allowing the company to train its AI models on Reddit content.

An increasing number of lawsuits against AI companies over alleged copyright infringement are being followed by partnerships.

In December, Microsoft and OpenAI were sued by The New York Times for intellectual property violations related to ChatGPT training data. The Times seeks to hold the two companies accountable for "billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages" related to the "unlawful copying and use of the Times's uniquely valuable works," according to a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. OpenAI disagrees with the Times' characterization of events.

In 2023, a group of prominent U.S. authors, including Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI for copyright infringement, alleging that their work was used to train ChatGPT. In July, two authors filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that their books were used to train the company's chatbot without their consent.