AP Chief Revenue Officer Kristin Heitman said this is part of a long-standing relationship with the search giant (File) | Photo Credit: AP
Google announced that its artificial intelligence chatbot, Gemini, will be the first tech giant to sign a deal with a news publisher to deliver the latest news from The Associated Press.
Google announced the deal in a blog post Wednesday, saying AP “will deliver a feed of real-time information to further enhance the usefulness of the results you see in the Gemini app.”
Kristin Heitman, AP’s chief revenue officer, said this is part of a long-standing relationship with the search giant, “working together to provide timely and accurate news and information to audiences around the world.” It is based on what we do.”
“I am pleased that Google recognizes AP’s journalistic values and commitment to nonpartisan reporting in the development of its generative AI products,” Heitman said in a written statement.
Neither company has disclosed how much Google will pay AP for content. Google declined further comment on how it presents information from Associated Press journalism, credits the news organization or links to the original article.
Gemini, formerly known as Bard, is Google’s answer to the demand for generative AI tools that can create documents, generate images, assist with program code, or perform other tasks.
AP has sought to diversify its revenue streams in recent years, signing a deal in 2023 with OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, to allow AI companies to license AP’s archive of news articles to help shape the future of its AI systems. You can now train versions. Financial terms of the deal were also not disclosed, but it joins a growing number of similar partnerships between OpenAI and news organizations around the world.
At the same time, news organizations have complained that AI companies are using their material without permission or payment, and that they are unfairly engaging with AI companies over advertising revenue earned when people use search engines or click on news websites. have expressed concerns about competition. The New York Times and other news organizations sued AI companies such as OpenAI for copyright infringement, making arguments before a New York federal judge on Tuesday.
Tech companies argue that freely taking publicly available text from the internet to teach AI models constitutes “fair use” under U.S. copyright law. But facing legal challenges and technology prone to errors known as hallucinations, AI companies have sought to license high-quality data sources to improve the performance of their products.
Publishers are at a disadvantage as tech companies integrate AI-generated summaries of information into a suite of online services, but these deals bring much-needed revenue to news organizations and encourage people to go online. It’s also beneficial in terms of improving the overall quality of the information you see, he said. “The digital media literacy initiative of the Poynter Institute, Mediawise, Director Alex Mahadevan.
“You can either sign a contract with an AI company and work with them and receive what they give you for your efforts, all your articles, all your data, or you can fight like the New York Times and the New York Times. “Some people are trying to do it in court,” he said.
AP is proud to be an unbiased news source, providing news stories, photos, video, audio, and interactive content directly to consumers through its website, APNews.com. But the bulk of the company’s business comes from selling to organizations that use its journalism.
The Associated Press has experienced a sharp decline in revenue from its newspaper customers over the past year, including the loss of two of America’s largest traditional newspaper companies, Gannett and McClatchy. Although the Associated Press is increasingly turning to other sources of income, such as philanthropic funding, it continues to be hit by the woes of the news industry as a whole.
“There’s a lot of data and text in AP that is worth gold in terms of training advanced generative AI models,” said Sarah Kreps, professor and director of Cornell University’s Technology Policy Institute. Such trades may help offset some of the lost revenue, but they also come with risks.
“By outsourcing their value to tech companies, news organizations may relinquish control over how their work is used and monetized,” Kreps said in an email. . “Readers risk becoming suppliers of raw material for platforms that commodify and repurpose journalism instead of building stronger, more direct relationships with them.”
issued – January 16, 2025 9:39 AM IST
