Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI

Speaking of The Verge, its parent company Vox Media, along with The Atlantic, have signed a deal with OpenAI.

Two more media companies have signed licensing agreements with OpenAI, allowing their content to be used to train its AI models and be shared inside of ChatGPT. The Atlantic and Vox Media -The Verge's parent company -both announced deals with OpenAI on Wednesday.

Emilia David at The Verge

In the case of Vox Media, the deal was made and announced without informing their staff, which obviously doesn't sit well with especially Vox' writers. By making deals like this, upper management gets to double-dip on the fruits of their workers' labour - first, the published content generates ad revenues, and second, OpenAI pays them to use said content for training and other purposes.

And once the AI" gets good enough, more and more of the writers will be fired, leaving only a skeleton crew of lower-paid workers to clean up the AI" output. With this deal, the writing is on the wall for every journalist at Vox Media - you're currently contributing to your own obsolescence, and your bosses are getting paid for it.

As far as I know, OSNews' owner, David, has not yet been contacted by OpenAI. Regardless, I'll sell the past 20-odd years of my terrible takes for 69 million euros, after deducting Swedish taxes. And since OpenAI is run by billionaires: taxes are this thing where normal people pay a portion of their income to the government in return for various government services.

It's wild, I know.