OpenAI and Time journal on Thursday introduced a “multi-year content material deal” that may permit OpenAI to entry present and archived articles from greater than 100 years of Time’s historical past.

The Microsoft-backed startup will be capable to show Time’s content material inside its ChatGPT chatbot in response to consumer questions, in line with a press release, and to make use of Time’s content material “to boost its merchandise,” or, seemingly, to coach its artificial intelligence fashions.

OpenAI’s use of Time’s content material will characteristic a quotation and hyperlink again to the unique supply, the discharge stated.

As a part of the deal, Time could have entry to OpenAI’s know-how as a way to “develop new merchandise for its audiences,” the discharge stated.

The information follows a similar partnership introduced by OpenAI and News Corp. in Might, which permits OpenAI to entry present and archived articles from Information Corp.’s shops, together with The Wall Road Journal, MarketWatch, Barron’s, The New York Put up and extra. Reddit also announced in Might that it’s going to companion with OpenAI, permitting the corporate to coach its AI fashions on Reddit content material.

AI corporations face quite a lot of lawsuits over alleged copyright infringement.

In December, The New York Instances filed a swimsuit in opposition to Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging mental property violations associated to its journalistic content material showing in ChatGPT coaching knowledge. The Instances seeks to carry Microsoft and OpenAI accountable for “billions of {dollars} in statutory and precise damages” associated to the “illegal copying and use of the Instances’s uniquely invaluable works,” in line with a submitting within the U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of New York. OpenAI disagreed with the Instances’ characterization of occasions.

In 2023, a gaggle of distinguished U.S. authors, together with Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI alleging copyright infringement in utilizing their work to coach ChatGPT. In July, two authors filed a similar lawsuit in opposition to OpenAI, alleging that their books have been used to coach the corporate’s chatbot with out their consent.