The Financial Times deal with OpenAI highlights an uneasy future for both media and tech

The nontransparent nature of the licensing agreements could spell bad news for smaller publications.

Another week, another uneasy deal between Big Tech and the publications covering its players. OpenAI announced Monday that it had struck a deal with the Financial Times to license the newspaper’s journalistic output as training data for its large language models, which in turn power chatbots like ChatGPT.