--- title: "AI Is Already Leaving Right Wing, Conservative Media Outlets In The Past" description: "Should genAI be journalism's future, Semafor reports that partisan digital outlets, especially those on the far-right, might get frozen out." date: "2024-06-01" modified: "2024-06-01" authors: - name: "Maggie Harrison Dupré" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-leaving-conservative-media" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" tags: - "ai" - "ai journalism" - "OpenAI" - "the digest" --- # AI Is Already Leaving Right Wing, Conservative Media Outlets In The Past ![Should genAI be journalism's future, Semafor reports that partisan digital outlets, especially those on the far-right, might get frozen out.]() *\Image: Keith Griner via Getty / Futurism\* ## Priorities Generative AI still poses [existential risks]() to the digital media industry and many of its [currently human-allotted jobs](). But should AI win out as the journalism industry's future guiding force, there might be one incredible silver lining: fringe right-wing outlets getting left in the dust. As [*Semafor* reports](), a growing number of high-profile publishers — a list including [*The Associated Press*](), [*The Financial Times*](), *Politico* and *Business Insider* owner [Axel Springer](), and *The* *Wall Street Journal* and *New York Post* owner [News Corporation]() — have entered deals with ChatGPT creator OpenAI to license out their libraries in exchange for cash. While OpenAI gets high-quality content to feed its AI models, it's unclear what publishers really get in return. Interestingly, per *Semafor*, this offer isn't on the table for everyone. So far, OpenAI's licensing deals have centered on legacy media brands and publishers. Those getting left furthest in the cold appear to be partisan digital outlets, particularly far-right-leaning outfits like *The Daily Caller* and *The Daily Wire*, both of which confirmed to *Semafor* that they've yet to receive any licensing inquiries from OpenAI. In short, if OpenAI does end up taking a sledgehammer to an already-fractured digital publishing economy, partisan news outfits that exist on the ideological fringes could be the ones to take the brunt of the blow. ## Lamestream Media Speaking to *Semafor*, *Daily Caller* co-founder Neil Patel admonished "left wing tech companies" for "ignoring news outlets trusted by half of America and focusing exclusively on training AI models using left leaning news sources." "The result," he continued, "will of course be shockingly biased AI systems having influence and even control over many aspects of life." We've already seen conservatives — aside from Patel, that is — accusing OpenAI's ChatGPT of "[going woke]()," pointing at [apparent biases and flawed guardrails](). However, OpenAI's content deal push isn't shying away from *legacy* conservative media. The Murdoch family-built News Corp empire, with which OpenAI struck its most recent deal, is overwhelmingly right-leaning. (OpenAI has [also reportedly been in talks]() to contract with the driving conservative cultural force and [most-watched]() cable behemoth that is *Fox News.*) Meanwhile, other non-legacy, left-leaning digital outlets like *HuffPost* or *Jezebel*, also don't have million-dollar licensing deals with OpenAI. Per *Semafor*, OpenAI hasn't paid nearly as much attention to [copyright]() infringement lawsuits leveled against it by [smaller digital outlets]() as it has to a [similar suit]() filed by *The New York Times*. In other words, at least right now, OpenAI is simply prioritizing media institutions with decades-old wells of high-quality data. Where that leaves the future of far-right-leaning publications is anybody's guess. **More on AI and news:** [*Newsweek Is Using AI in Its Articles*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping the media industry, and more broadly how those dynamics are changing how we all consume and share information and relate to one another. I'm also fascinated by public health policy and ethics, the role of emerging tech in politics and governance — and the powerful people and forces at those intersections — climate change, and the environment. My investigation on Sports Illustrated's use of AI-generated authors with fictional biographies won a 2024 Mirror Award for "Best Story on Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and the Media" from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School, I contributed to Niemen Lab's 2025 Predictions for Journalism series, and I've discussed my work for Futurism during appearances on NPR, CNN, the BBC, the CBC, and more. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I played Division I field hockey for the Minutewomen as a midfielder. Since then, I've lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and Manhattan, New York. I spend my free time running, reading, perusing archival fashion, and searching for the world’s best negroni. I also have a debonair tuxedo cat, Westley, who's named after "The Princess Bride." ### Author social links [Bluesky]()