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ChatGPT will now use
The Washington Post
to offer solutions based on the newspaper’s coverage
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The responses from ChatGPT will now incorporate summaries, quotations, and links to articles.
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This development adds to OpenAI’s expanding list of news collaborators and complements The Post’s own artificial intelligence projects.
The Washington Post
has signed an agreement with OpenAI to provide its reporting content directly within ChatGPT. So, when you inquire through ChatGPT about topics such as “What’s new regarding the Supreme Court this week?” or “How is the current state of the housing market?”, your response may include information from their reports.
Post
summary of the article, an appropriate quotation from within, along with a hyperlink directing readers to the complete piece.
For businesses, this partnership is highly logical. The combination of prestigious journalism with an AI tool utilized weekly by over 500 million individuals clearly holds significant allure. A platform that functions as something akin to a cross between a search engine, a news application, and a research aide would attract enthusiasts from one or both domains. Both organizations emphasize their aim to enhance access to accurate, top-tier reporting in the era of interactive AI technologies.
This collaboration will alter ChatGPT’s responses to questions about current events, ensuring that pertinent reporting is included.
The Post
When significant events occur in Congress or new international conflicts arise, users will be directed to The Post’s reliable coverage. Ideally, this should reduce the amount of speculation, misinterpreted information, and outright falsehoods that often appear in AI-generated replies.
This isn’t OpenAI’s first media rodeo. The company has already partnered with over 20 news publishers, including
The Associated Press, Le Monde, The Guardian,
and
Axel Springer
These collaborations share a common structure: OpenAI grants licensing rights for content, enabling their models to produce answers that feature precise synopses along with references linking back to original journalistic sources, while also distributing part of the earnings among publishers.
For OpenAI, collaborating with news organizations goes beyond mere public relations enhancement. It represents a pragmatic approach to guaranteeing that the advancement of AI does not merely regurgitate information from sources like Reddit and Wikipedia as they existed in 2021. Rather, this partnership aims to dynamically incorporate current journalistic content into its responses for genuine inquiries.
WaPo AI
The Washington Post
possesses its distinct aspirations regarding artificial intelligence. The organization has previously explored concepts such as those mentioned.
“Ask The Post AI”
A chatbot designed to respond to queries utilizing the information from the newspaper. Additionally,
the
Climate Answers
chatbot, which the publication released specifically to answer questions and share information based on the newspaper’s climate journalism. Internally, the newsroom has been building tools like Haystacker, which helps journalists sift through massive datasets and find story leads buried in the numbers.
Idealistic enthusiasm is great, but several issues remain unresolved. For example, how will the journalists who diligently reported and penned these stories be credited or financially rewarded when their work is integrated into platforms like ChatGPT? While a hyperlink to their original piece exists, this does not equate to actual views or guide readers towards additional articles by them or their peers.
From an overarching viewpoint, wouldn’t integrating ChatGPT as an intermediary between readers and newspapers merely perpetuate the erosion of subscriptions and revenue crucial for sustaining a media organization? It’s unclear whether this setup will prove synergistic or if it’ll lead to AI harnessing the finest efforts of many individuals while disregarding those very contributors themselves. Enhancing ChatGPT’s reliability could
The Washington Post
It’s a solid concept, however, we will need to monitor upcoming news headlines to determine if the AI enhances the newspaper’s performance.
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