American technology company Apple has begun talks with major news media and broadcasters to use broadcast archives to train artificial intelligence systems. This was reported by newspaper The New York Times (TNYT) quotes its own sources.
According to the publication’s interlocutors, the technology giant has already signed multi-year agreements worth at least $ 50 million for the licensing of news archives. The company’s partners include major information platforms such as weekly The New Yorker, NBC News, news publication The Daily Beast and others.
Sources said some publishing executives were cool to Apple’s offer. Executives expressed concerns about the legal liabilities they may face as a result of Apple’s use of company-owned licensed content.
Apple also hasn’t explained exactly how the company plans to implement generative AI in the news industry. Given the significant audience that reads news on their iPhones and iPads, this poses a potential competitive risk.
Two people from The New York Times also noted that Apple executives have been discussing in recent years how to collect data to create productive AI products and avoid copyright lawsuits that other AI technology developers are already facing.
Previously Apple engineers approached To bring powerful AI to portable devices.