It marks the latest in a string of new deals between OpenAI and publishers

The Financial Times (full disclosure — the owners of The Next Web) have inked a deal with OpenAI. The American firm will use the British publisher’s content to train its generative AI models.

The deal is the latest in a string of new partnerships between OpenAI and global news publishers like Axel Springer, Associated Press, and Le Monde. The company did not disclose the financial terms of any of the contracts.

In 2023 alone, hundreds of pages of litigation and countless articles accused tech firms of stealing artists’ and publishers’ work to train their AI models.

OpenAI has come under fire for training its GPT models on content scraped from the web without consent. Last year, The New York Times even sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.

OpenAI’s recent tie-ups with publishers will allow it to continue to train its algorithms on web content. But, this time, it ...