Apple offers publishers millions to train AI on archives

Apple wants to license with content from news publishers to train generative AI systems, in multi-year deals to access content potentially valued to cost Apple tens of millions of dollars.Siri, Apple's main public-facing machine learning featureApple is working on its own generative AI projects to maintain its position in the overall AI marketplace. To improve its work, those systems need content to learn from, something which Apple is allegedly trying to acquire.According to sources of The New York Times on Friday, Apple has been in talks with a number of publishers, to secure access to their news archives. These allegedly include discussions of 'multiyear deals worth at least $50 million' with major names in the publishing industry. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums