The New York Times agreed to license editorial content to Amazon to train Tech Giant’s AI platform, nearly two years after Openai and Microsoft sued for copyright infringement.
The deal “brings Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” the outlet said in a statement. This includes content such as news articles, NYT cooking ingredients, sites dedicated to food and recipes, and athletics such as sports-centric sites.
The company also said that the use of Amazon’s Times editorial content could be extended to smart speaker Alexa software.
“Whenever it makes sense in the consumer experience of Amazon’s products, we provide a direct link to Times products that allow readers to get a full-time experience,” New York Times spokesman Daniel Rhodes HA told TechCrunch.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed, but it is the first of such a contract from Amazon. Openai has signed several similar deals with publishers, including the Washington Post, Atlantic, Guardian, Newscorp and Axel Springer.
This is the first time the Times has agreed to a generative AI-focused licensing arrangement, after the outlet accused Openai and Microsoft of using millions of published articles to train AI models without consent or compensation.
“We have a long-standing approach to ensuring that our work is properly valued, either through commercial transactions or through the enforcement of intellectual property rights,” the spokesman said.
Both Openai and Microsoft have refused to file fraud claims.
This article was updated with comments from The New York Times.
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