Google announced Wednesday that its Gemini chatbot will deliver breaking news to the Associated Press, in the tech giant’s first such deal with a media outlet.
Google announced the deal in a blog post, stating that AP “will now deliver a real-time feed of information to further enhance the usefulness of the results displayed in the Gemini app.”
AP Chief Revenue Officer Kristin Heitmann said it was part of a long-standing relationship with the Internet search giant “based on working together to deliver timely, accurate news and information to a global audience.”
“We are pleased that Google recognizes the value of AP’s journalism, as well as our commitment to unbiased reporting, in the development of its generative AI products,” Heitman said in a statement.
Neither company disclosed how much Google will pay AP for the content. Google declined to comment further on how it would present the AP’s information and whether it would cite or link to the original articles.
Gemini, formerly known as Bard, is Google’s answer to the demand for generative AI tools that can compose documents, generate images, help with programming or perform other tasks.
The AP has sought to diversify its revenue in recent years and in 2023 signed a deal with OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, allowing the company to license the AP’s news archive to train future versions of its AI systems. The financial terms of that deal were also not disclosed, but it has sparked a growing number of similar partnerships between OpenAI and media around the world.
At the same time, news organizations have expressed concern about technology companies using their material without permission or payment and then competing with them for advertising revenue.
The New York Times and other media outlets have sued OpenAI and other artificial intelligence companies for copyright infringement and presented their case to a federal judge in New York on Tuesday.
Tech companies have argued that freely taking publicly available text from the Internet to teach their AI models constitutes “fair use” under US copyright laws.
However, faced with legal challenges and error-prone technology, AI companies are also looking to license high-quality data sources to improve the performance of their products.
Source: Radio Free Europe
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