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I am pretty much every stereotype of a lefty American, but even I have some hesitation of using Vox media to train AIs. Vox is pretty non-apologetically partisan, which isn’t necessarily a problem but I don’t know is a good idea for training AI.

I do actually really like Vox, but I dunno, this is giving me a bad vibe.

my uneducated guess is that the partnership is because Vox has a lot of explainers written and used to embed these little factoid explainer cards in their articles which are probably useful from a data point of view

also - I think this is for some kind of RAG, not training

Vox media, the company owning Vox, seems to own multiple titles:

> Vox Media owns multiple media properties including Vox, The Verge, Eater, New York Magazine, The Cut, Vulture, and SB Nation.

I’m not familiar enough with US news landscape to know, but do they all share the partisanship you mentioned?

I would say so, yes.

I'm still unclear whether these partnerships are "we're going to make a special segment of our training corpus that is text from Vox Media because we think it's extra valuable" or "we almost certainly scraped a bunch of Vox data when we built our training corpus years ago, and now we're paying them to not sue us".

Either way, it’s free marketing

> OpenAI partners with Vox Media

This strikes me as very weird, coming after some highly critical reporting by Vox about OpenAI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40447431

https://www.threads.net/@reckless1280/post/C7juyV6xRrY Nilay from the verge sums it up well here. There is a firewall between editorial and commercial parts of the business. They'll disclose and continue to report, just like they already report on Netflix (they have a netflix show), The Verge has taken money from Comcast but antagonize them as well.

OpenAI post: https://openai.com/index/a-content-and-product-partnership-w...

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