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Companies including OpenAI are on a quest for licensing deals with publishers, some of which have already succeeded (Axel Springer SE, Newscorp), but as journalist Hamilton Nolan points out, this is akin to “selling your own house for firewood”. A leaked deck from OpenAI’s “Preferred Publisher Program” promises that members of the program will get priority placement and “richer brand expression” in chat conversations. Results from AI systems may be influenced by sponsored deals even more covertly. - ev475

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