March 13 (Reuters) - ChatGPT users will get access to

French and Spanish news content from Le Monde and Prisa Media,

Microsoft ( MSFT )-backed OpenAI said on Wednesday, disclosing

its partnership with the media publications.

The content will also be used to train generative artificial

intelligence models, it said amid growing popularity of the

technology and its influence across various sectors.

"Our partnership with OpenAI is a strategic move to ensure

the dissemination of reliable information to AI users,

safeguarding our journalistic integrity and revenue streams in

the process," Le Monde CEO Louis Dreyfus said.

Last year, global news publisher Axel Springer and the

Associated Press had signed deals with OpenAI to explore the use

of generative AI in news.

But at the same time, news publications are grappling with

issues such as copyright infringement and fair compensation when

their content is used to train large language models.

The New York Times ( NYT ) had sued OpenAI and Microsoft ( MSFT )

last year, accusing them of using millions of the its articles

without permission.

News organizations such as the Intercept, Raw Story and

AlterNet had also sued OpenAI in a New York federal court last

month, accusing it of misusing their articles to train the AI

system behind ChatGPT.