Journalists at The Atlantic are expressing concern over their employers’ content licensing partnership with OpenAI, Semafor’s Max Tani reports. The Atlantic announced its deal with OpenAI back in May, arguing that the “strategic content and product partnership” with the ChatGPT maker would position the magazine as a “premium news source within OpenAI” as it inches further into the world of search. “We believe that people searching with AI models will be one of the fundamental ways that people navigate the web in the future,” Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson said in a statement at the time of the deal. “We’re delighted to partner with OpenAI, to make The Atlantic’s reporting and stories more discoverable to their millions of users, and to have a voice in shaping how news is surfaced on their platforms.” But today, in a letter addressed to Thompson and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic’s staff argue that “new revelations” about OpenAI and its famous chatbot, ChatGPT, have heightened their concerns about the controversial AI deal — and as the journalists whose work is being lifted to fuel OpenAI’s products, they also deserve to have a seat at the bargaining table. “Our editorial leaders say that The Atlantic is a magazine made by humans, for humans,” reads the journalists’ letter. “We could not agree more.” “Although we understand that there may be a place at The Atlantic for artificial intelligence,” they add, “Atlantic staffers must have a voice in how it affects our work.” Letter from Atlantic unionized staff…The Atlantic's Staff Is Furious About Its Deal With OpenAI