The American multinational Meta is working to enhance its artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI. It will incorporate, in real time, news content published by several media organizations — namely CNN, Fox News, and Le Monde — following an agreement announced on Friday, December 5.
The assistant will provide links to articles on the websites of partner media outlets in its responses to questions about current events.
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, several news publishers have secured agreements with major AI players: News Corp (The Wall Street Journal and The Daily Telegraph), Le Monde, The Washington Post, and Axel Springer (Politico, Bild and Die Welt) have chosen OpenAI; The New York Times has partnered with Amazon; Google has collaborated with the Associated Press; while Mistral has teamed up with Agence France-Presse.
Meta has also pursued other avenues to address one of its biggest shortcomings in AI, striking deals with People, the U.S. national daily USA Today, as well as right-leaning publications such as The Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner.
Although the press has managed its transition to AI better than it did with search engines, these collaborations have faced hurdles, and several legal actions brought by media outlets against AI assistant operators are still ongoing. The New York Times, for instance, has accused OpenAI of using its articles without authorization and without compensation.
Similarly, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post initiated proceedings against Perplexity in 2024.
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