OpenAI’s deal streak with publishers continued this week with news of a content licensing agreement with IAC-owned Dotdash Meredith. The generative AI company now has the right to ingest and surface content from over 50 individual publications thanks to deals with various global publishers.
Financial terms of those deals have not been disclosed, but publishers have positioned them as wins for their businesses and as evidence that OpenAI fairly values access to their content.
However, questions remain around how much leverage publishers realistically have in licensing negotiations, and whether publishers are essentially taking whatever they can get from OpenAI for fear of “missing the boat” and being shut off from its users altogether.
On Tuesday OpenAI said a new multi-year agreement will allow it to use Dotdash Meredith’s content to train its large language models and display excerpts and summaries directly in responses to ChatGPT user queries. The pair will also collaborate to create new AI products and features for Dotdash’s audience.