OpenAI has struck a multi-year deal with Condé Nast to allow the Microsoft-backed startup to use content from media brands including The New Yorker, Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair and Bon Appétit. Under the agreement announced on Tuesday, OpenAI will have permission to display content from Condé Nast's stable of media properties in its artificial intelligence-powered products, including ChatGPT and its SearchGPT prototype. Sam Altman-led OpenAI and Condé Nast did not disclose the terms of the deal. "We're committed to working with Condé Nast and other news publishers to ensure that as AI plays a larger role in news discovery and delivery, it maintains accuracy, integrity, and respect for quality reporting," OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said in a statement posted on the startup's website. In a memo to staff, Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch said it is important to embrace new technologies and protect intellectual property at a time when tech companies are eroding media companies' ability to monetize content.

OpenAI and Reddit announced a partnership on Thursday that will allow OpenAI to surface Reddit discussions in ChatGPT and for Reddit to bring AI-powered features to its users. The partnership will "enable OpenAI's tools to better understand and showcase Reddit content, especially on recent topics," both companies said in a joint statement. As part of the agreement, OpenAI will also become an advertising partner on Reddit, which means that it will run ads on the platform. The deal is similar to the one that Reddit signed with Google in February, and which is reportedly worth 60 million. A Reddit spokesperson declined to disclose the terms of the OpenAI deal to Engadget and OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment.

Now, a rising group of authors, musicians, news organizations and social media companies has been pushing back, arguing that the use of their content to train AI is a massive shift in the way the internet works, especially since some of the AI tools being trained on human-made content are already being used to replace human workers. A wave of lawsuits has washed over the industry in the past two weeks alleging improper data use, including class-action suits against OpenAI and Google, and lawsuits against OpenAI from the comedian Sarah Silverman and two prominent fiction authors.