The New York Times has reached an agreement for Amazon to
use its content to train artificial intelligence models, the leading US
newspaper announced Thursday in its first generative AI licensing deal.
Several media groups have already reached similar agreements
with major technology companies, but The New York Times had previously refused
to allow its content to be used in the AI race.
The newspaper has sued Amazon rival OpenAI, accusing it of
infringing its copyright by using its content to train the generative AI
chatbot ChatGPT without permission.
Amazon is incorporating the technology into its Alexa voice
assistant, and the deal opens the door for The New York Times content to be
used by Alexa and its connected devices.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
"The agreement is consistent with our long-held
principle that high-quality journalism is worth paying for," Meredith
Kopit Levien, The Times' chief executive, said in a note to staff.