OpenAI and Microsoft are funding initiatives to convey extra AI instruments into the newsroom. The duo will give grants of as much as $10 million to Chicago Public Media, the Minnesota Star Tribune, Newsday (in Lengthy Island, NY), The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Seattle Occasions. Every of the publications will rent a two-year AI fellow to develop initiatives for implementing the know-how and bettering enterprise sustainability. Three extra shops are anticipated to obtain fellowship grants in a second spherical.
OpenAI and Microsoft are every contributing $2.5 million in direct funding in addition to $2.5 million in software program and enterprise credit. The Lenfest Institute of Journalism is collaborating with OpenAI and Microsoft on the challenge, and the information at the moment.
To this point, the ties between journalism and AI have principally ranged from suspicious to litigious. OpenAI and Microsoft have been sued by the , , . Some publications accused ChatGPT of plagiarizing their articles, and different fits centered on scraping internet content material for AI mannequin coaching with out permission or compensation. Different media shops have opted to barter; was one of many newest to ink a take care of OpenAI for rights to their content material.
In a separate improvement, OpenAI has Aaron Chatterji as its first chief economist. Chatterji is a professor at Duke College’s Fuqua Faculty of Enterprise, and he additionally served on President Barack Obama’s Council of Financial Advisers in addition to in President Joe Biden’s Commerce Division.
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