Reuters strikes AI deal with Facebook

Meta has struck a multi-year deal with Reuters to use its news content to provide real-time answers to user queries about news and current events in its Meta AI chatbot. reports Sara Fischer of Axios.

Fischer reports, “Beginning Friday, users of Meta’s AI chatbot feature in the U.S. will have access to real-time news and information from Reuters when they ask questions about news or current events.

Meta’s AI chatbot is integrated into the search and messaging features on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.
Answers to user queries about news will cite Reuters’ stories and link out to its coverage.
Reuters will be compensated for access to its journalism, a source said.

“Between the lines: It’s unclear whether the partnership includes a licensing component that would allow Meta to use Reuters’ journalism to train Meta’s large language model, Llama.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.