In October, OpenAI began its partnership with Hearst, the media conglomerate behind outlets like the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Elle and others. Under the partnership, products like ChatGPT and SearchGPT can use content from more than 20 magazine brands and more than 40 newspapers. OpenAI announced a similar partnership in August with Condé Nast, which owns media brands such as Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair and Wired. OpenAI and Time announced a “multi-year content deal” in June that allowed OpenAI to access current and archived articles from more than 100 years of the magazine’s history. OpenAI can use Time’s content “to enhance its products,” according to the magazine, or, likely, to train its AI models.The Washington Post on Tuesday inked a deal with OpenAI allowing the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence startup to display, summarize and quote the newspaper’s content within ChatGPT.The deal is the latest in a string of media partnerships OpenAI has formed with more than 20 news publishers, which include more than 160 outlets. What is your take on OpenAI media deals ?

