Wiley, OUP confirm AI partnerships

In the UK, the Bookseller reports that academic publishers Wiley and Oxford University Press (OUP) have confirmed artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships, following the recent news that Taylor & Francis has sold access to its authors’ research as part of an AI partnership with Microsoft.

OUP said it was actively working with companies developing large language models to explore options for their responsible development and usage. ‘This is not only to improve research outcomes, but to champion the vital role that researchers have in an AI-enabled world,’ said OUP.

A Wiley spokesperson said the company ‘believes that generative AI has the potential to transform knowledge-based industries and that it is in the public interest for these emerging technologies to be trained on high-quality, reliable information’.

‘To this end, we have entered into two agreements to leverage select, previously published content for training these models,’ said Wiley. ‘We are committed to ensuring that authors and societies benefit from these deals through compensation and rights protection, in accordance with existing contractual agreements.’

‘Meanwhile, Cambridge University Press (CUP) has said it is talking to authors about opt-ins along with “fair remuneration” before making any deals,’ reported the Bookseller.

‘We will put authors’ interests and desires first, before allowing their work to be licensed for [generative AI],’ said Mandy Hill, managing director of academic publishing at CUP.

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