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Meta Taps Reuters for Real-Time News in AI Chatbot Revamp

Meta Taps Reuters for Real-Time News in AI Chatbot Revamp

In June, Meta Platforms said that it will work with Reuters as its AI chat will be able to respond to users in real time using Reuters’ news content. This vector is to improve relay of modern information through the chatbot in real time, which is another instance of the partnership between tech companies and news providers.

Meta Partners with Reuters to Supercharge AI Chatbot with Real-Time News

Despite the announcement, neither Meta nor Reuters disclosed the return of the investment, which makes part of the agreement. This is Meta’s first big news deal in the last few years and is particularly significant considering that the company has been reducing the content it serves to users about news in the recent past.

It comes as Meta has reduced its output of news content due to pressure from regulators and publishers on topics including misinformation and revenue split. The fact that has recently partnered with Reuters could mean that the company is showing an intent to get back to providing people with quality news in the form of an AI-assisted content provider.

The inclusion of Reuters content in the use of Meta’s AI chatbot is therefore part of the growing adaptation of AI in improving the experience of users consume news. This strategy enables Meta to post reliable information while avoiding the use of news sharing formats that were previously a source of conflict.

Using Reuters’ familiar news feed approach, Meta’s AI chatbot is ideally suitable for users who need fast and accurate information on world events. This collaboration may go some ways in alleviating some of the issues people have with the work of an AI writer, in this case, the chatbot will be replicating from a good source within the news industry.

Meta AI Rolls Out Across Platforms, Taps Reuters for Trusted News Content

The company’s AI chatbot called Meta AI is now a part of all of Meta’s key apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. This expansion will help the user achieve a smooth integration of artificial intelligence features within the selected service of the social media giant.

Although Meta has partnered with Reuters to use news content, the company is yet to indicate if this content used by Reuters will be the one used to train its large-language model. Through the partnership, Meta AI can provide real-time news responses although the details of how an organization/brand would use the articles remain unknown but through the partnership, Reuters content reposts will be useful in responses.

Reuters has signed deals with technology partners such as Meta to license its safe news content fed into the AI solutions. This move fits well the general trend of including proven news outlets into AI platforms to improve the reliability of the data.

Information on the licensing agreement that has been signed between Meta and Reuters is still unclear since both entities have not disclosed the information. It also aligns with a conservative strategy of how AI can be advanced and at the same time how exclusive news content can be monetized.

Offering Meta AI on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram is how the firm has been utilizing AI to enhance engagement on the platform. This approach can actually lift the quality of information given, although the specific relation to the procedure of training the AI is still vague.

Reuters Inks Multi-Year Deal to Power Meta AI with Premium News Content

Axios recently reported that Reuters will be paid as it grants exclusivity to Meta access to journalistic content for multi-year subscription. This agreement is also a logical continuation of the general trend of using AI services with ready news content.

As a result of the cooperation with Reuters, Meta will be able to use it as a special knowledge base, with which its artificial intelligence will be able to answer news-related questions by giving the user brief overviews, as well as links to the main source – in this case, Reuters. Its goal is to improve the quality and usability of information provided by AI MMS and other systems of Meta.

Reuters’ new agreement with Meta is not an isolated case; other AI content generators, such as OpenAI and Perplexity, also sign partnerships with news outlets. These are mongered through possible partnerships in a bid to enhance the quality of information that the AI systems can offer to the users.

The partnership come after Meta and Reuters had a fact-checking agreement that started during the year 2020. The new partnership’s proceeding of this cooperation by including the Reuters content in Meta’s Artificial Intelligence.

That Reuters is paid for journalism, means that the tendency to begin monetizing news content used in AI, is now being observed. This could point to how news organizations will be licensing their content to the tech companies in the emerging AI environment.

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