ChatGPT partners up with German publishing giant to enable AI-powered journalism

OpenAI, the private research laboratory on direct artificial intelligence (AI) will come together with German publishing giant Axel Springer to use its news content in the company’s artificial intelligence products AI tool ChatGPT.

As reported by CNN, as part of this “first of its kind” global publishing deal ChatGPT users will receive summaries of news stories from Axel Springer’s brands, including Politico, Business Insider, Bild and Welt, with attribution and links to the original sources of reporting.

Representatives of OpenAI said on December 13, that the agreement will allow OpenAI’s models to take advantage of the publisher’s higher quality and more current information in its chatbots’ answers.

“We want to explore the opportunities of AI-empowered journalism — to bring quality, societal relevance and the business model of journalism to the next level”, Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of Axel Springer, said in a statement.