Meta strikes AI licensing deals with CNN, Fox News, and USA Today

On Friday, Meta announced that its AI chatbot volition present respond with accusation from CNN, Fox News, USA Today, and People Inc.’s portfolio, arsenic portion of a caller concern with the companies.

The woody comes arsenic publishers proceed to sue AI companies for stealing content. The New York Times filed a lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity connected Friday, for example, seeking to halt it from pulling its quality until the 2 companies scope an agreement.

Meta says the partnerships volition “improve Meta AI’s quality to present timely and applicable contented and accusation with a wide assortment of viewpoints and contented types.” It has besides struck deals with blimpish outlets The Daily Caller and The Washington Examiner, arsenic good arsenic the French media conglomerate radical Le Monde.

Meta’s displacement toward AI-focused licensing agreements comes aft the institution backed out of deals with large publications and shuttered Facebook’s News tab. It besides pulled quality contented from Facebook and Instagram successful Canada aft the state enacted a instrumentality requiring it to wage for quality content.

Meta struck a akin AI licensing woody with Reuters past year. OpenAI has signed contented agreements with publications specified arsenic The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Tom’s Guide proprietor Future, and The Verge’s genitor institution Vox Media, but is facing a lawsuit from The New York Times arsenic well.