The Associated Press and OpenAI are back in business. The wire service said Wednesday the AI giant will license its elections data starting this year through the 2028 U.S. elections, making use of the AP’s vote counts across local, state and national races in major U.S. cities. The partnership expands the AP’s relationship with OpenAI, nearly three years after the two struck a two-year content-licensing deal to use AP stories to help train its technology, including ChatGPT.
“We are pleased to work with OpenAI to make available AP’s factual, accurate and nonpartisan elections data available to users of ChatGPT and OpenAI’s services,” David Scott, the vice president of AP Elections, said in a statement. “When people need information they can trust, they turn to AP. With this agreement, we’re helping make sure OpenAI and its tools can tell people around the world who Americans have picked to lead the nation.”
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AP has provided its vote counts to several partners, including all of the broadcast networks, CNN and Fox News. It also struck a deal with Kalshi in March to provide the prediction market platform with vote count and race-call data.
The partnership comes as OpenAI seeks to improve the reliability of election information ChatGPT surfaces to its users. The company said in a blog post on Wednesday it would rely on AP vote-count data this fall for elections in the U.S. and Brazil and on the elections information nonprofit Democracy Works to help users find where to vote.
“AI tools offer real opportunities for people to engage others in new ways that expand and deepen civic communities by expanding access across languages, education-levels, and backgrounds,” the company said in the post. “We believe it’s important that people can use AI systems to learn about, explore, and discuss political issues, and we will continue to enable that, while avoiding misuse by bad actors.”