Meta has signed several deals with news publishers to provide real-time data to its AI chatbot service. . The commercial agreement will enable the company’s Meta AI chatbot to better answer users’ questions about news and current events.
These are multi-year deals in which publishers will receive compensation for the use of their content, but financial details are unclear. The deal stipulates that Meta’s chatbot will link to articles when answering news questions, potentially resulting in a small increase in traffic for publishers.
News partners include: USA Today, people, Le Monde and CNN. However, today’s announcement also includes a number of conservative news outlets, including: fox news, daily caller and washington examiner. It’s a good thing that Meta’s AI provides the aforementioned link in case the chatbot says something weird about whatever nonsense culture wars are going on that day.
Meta announced that this is just a first step and that in the future they will add more news partners to cover more topics. This is an interesting move since the meta has long hated . It has stopped payments to U.S. publishers and the Facebook News tab.
