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• @reckless1280 Nilay Patel on threads

  There is a reason media companies have been lobbying like hell to pass the JCPA, which would allow them to bargain as a group without (hilariously) triggering antitrust scrutiny for collusion

• @daveleebbg Dave Lee on threads

  Big question here.  After training a model on the Atlantic's archive ... does OpenAI ever need to do it again?

• @jbillinson Josh Billinson on threads

  Media companies actually have a lot of leverage to make sure their work is fairly compensated and supported in the next era of the web and all they have to do is work together and not just race to see who can get the biggest check from OpenAI first

• @reckless1280 Nilay Patel on threads

  I don't have a lot to say about this — our newsroom is independent of the company's business dealings as it's always been.  We'll figure out some disclosure language and do a disclosure when it's appropriate, we are pretty good at those ;)

• @quillmatiq Anuj Ahooja on threads

  The saddest thing about this is that it'll be the smaller publishers that feel the deepest cut.  News summarization will enforce further consolidation while also putting more distance between newsrooms and their audience.  AI companies were going to vacuum up all this data anyway…

• @kylie.robison Kylie Robison on threads

  if fortune does a licensing deal that means every word ive ever written in my career is powering chatGPT to make it worse

• @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social Warner Crocker on mastodon

  Déjà vu.  —  Every time I read a headline that says another media company has signed an agreement with OpenAI why do my eyes turn it into “pivot to video?”  —  Exclusive: The Atlantic, Vox Media cut deals with OpenAI https://www.axios.com/...  [image]

• @waxmonkey.bsky.social @waxmonkey.bsky.social on bluesky

  do we think the byline will be openai or will they make up fake writers too  —  or is it just gonna say “staff” [embedded post]

• @chrismvasq.bsky.social Christian Vasquez on bluesky

  am convinced journo execs don't actually pay attention/read the stories their reporters publish.  not sure what else explains falling for this again [embedded post]

• @vox_union @vox_union on x

  A statement from the Vox Media Union, @thrillistunion and @thedodounion on the partnership between Vox Media and OpenAI. [image]

• @edmundlee Edmund Lee on x

  .@theatlantic cut a deal with @openai, following other news orgs, but I have questions. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  Vox Media just signed a deal with OpenAI that will include content from The Verge showing up in ChatGPT. OpenAI will “enhance its technology,” (sounds like train its models) on Vox Media's archives, too

• @stephentotilo Stephen Totilo on x

  The union for Polygon, The Verge and other publications has “serious concerns” about parent company's new deal to train Open AI on its work

• @lukewgoldstein Luke Goldstein on x

  All the same media companies that thought Google and Facebook would be their saviors in the aughts are now rushing like lemmings to ink deals with OpenAI. They've learned nothing.

• @edmundlee Edmund Lee on x

  What happens when they can't agree on renewal terms? Does OpenAI re-train its system to NOT include their news content? Is that even possible? Or do news orgs lose out because they're content becomes so baked into the LLM that OpenAI effectively owns it in perpetuity?

• @xpangler Todd Spangler on x

  Vox Media's editorial unions, in a statement about the OpenAl deal, said “we have serious concerns about this partnership, which we believe could adversely impact members of our union” https://variety.com/...

• @rafat @rafat on x

  “This is a lobbying and PR expense.”

• @emilybell Emily Bell on x

  Entering into a newsroom deal with OpenAI is materially different to say entering into the same with Google. Google does have a track record, known management, some level of accountability. OpenAI has nothing like this, and an emerging pattern of dishonesty

• @openai @openai on x

  We're announcing a content and product partnership with Vox Media.

• @nkulw Noah Kulwin on x

  Lmfao the Atlantic executive who made this happen is leading the bake-off to replace Remnick at the New Yorker https://www.semafor.com/...

• @hermida Alfred Hermida on x

  The deals between news publishers and AI companies are a double-edged sword via @trtworld. https://www.trtworld.com/...

• @vox_union @vox_union on x

  A statement from the Vox Media Union, @thrillistunion and @thedodounion on the partnership between Vox Media and OpenAI.  [Screenshot of the statement: “Today, members of the Vox Media Union, Thrillist Union, and The Dodo Union were informed without warning that Vox Media entered…

• @jeffjarvis @jeffjarvis on x

  On the news today: The Atlantic and Vox got OpenAI deals.  Add Springer, News Corp, AP, FT. May I be blunt?  OpenAI isn't buying their content.  It is buying their friendship.  This is a lobbying and PR expense.  The pity is that the rich (relatively speaking) get richer while th…

• @nxthompson @nxthompson on x

  I am delighted that @theatlantic now has a strategic content & product partnership with @openai. Our stories will be discoverable in their new products and we'll be working with them to figure out new ways that AI can help serious, independent media : https://www.theatlantic.com/…

• @tsuvik Vikas SN on x

  Heh! Interesting timing. Atlantic-OpenAI deal announcement comes days after The Atlantic ran an op-ed from @Jessicalessin on why such licensing deals are bad for publishers

• @pranavdixit @pranavdixit on x

  The Atlantic, five days ago.  [Screenshot of Atlantic article headline: “Media Companies Are Making a Huge Mistake With AI"]

• r/technology r on reddit

  A Devil's Bargain With OpenAI |  Publishers including The Atlantic are signing deals with the AI giant.  Where does this lead?