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Condé Nast Signs Deal With OpenAI

Condé Nast and OpenAI have struck a multi-year deal that will allow the AI giant to use content from the media giant’s roster of properties—which includes the New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and, yes, WIRED. He has previously been a vocal opponent of AI companies using content without first seeking permission, describing said data as “stolen goods.” After WIRED reported earlier this year on the web-scraping practices of the AI search engine startup Perplexity, Condé Nast sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that the company cease using its content. As Google and other search engines move beyond traditional search and incorporate generative AI news summaries and other AI products into their offerings—and generative AI companies like OpenAI introduce their own search products—news outlets face a stark choice: If they do not allow these companies to scrape data, they risk making their work harder to find on the internet. In an essay in The Atlantic, for example, The Information’s CEO Jessica Lessin compared the deals to “settling without litigation,” and argued that publishers are “trading in their own hard-earned credibility for a little cash from the companies that are simultaneously undervaluing them and building products quite clearly intended to replace them.” Condé Nast employees are voicing concerns about the deal.

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