OpenAI and Microsoft are funding $10 million in grants for AI-powered journalism

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are funding $10 million in grants for AI-powered journalism

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are funding projects to bring more AI tools into the newsroom. The duo will give grants of up to $10 million to Chicago Public Media, the Minnesota Star Tribune, Newsday (in Long Island, NY), The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Seattle Times. Each of the publications will hire a two-year AI fellow to develop projects for implementing the technology and improving business sustainability. Three more outlets are expected to receive fellowship grants in a second round.

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are each contributing $2.5 million in direct funding as well as $2.5 million in software and enterprise credits. The Lenfest Institute of Journalism is collaborating with OpenAI and

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on the project, and the news today.

To date, the ties between journalism and AI have mostly ranged from suspicious to litigious. OpenAI and

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have been sued by the ,

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, . Some publications accused ChatGPT of plagiarizing their articles, and other suits centered on scraping web content for AI model training without permission or compensation. Other media outlets have opted to negotiate; was one of the latest to ink a deal with OpenAI for rights to their content.

In a separate development, OpenAI has Aaron Chatterji as its first chief economist. Chatterji is a professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and he also served on President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers as well as in President Joe Biden’s Commerce Department.

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