The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
The New York Times, one of the most prestigious and influential newspapers in the world, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of violating their intellectual property rights by using their articles to train and test their artificial intelligence systems.
According to the complaint, OpenAI and Microsoft have been using New York Times content without authorization or compensation to develop and improve their natural language generation models, such as GPT-3 and GPT-4. The lawsuit claims that these models are capable of producing texts that are indistinguishable from the original articles and that pose a threat to the quality, credibility and profitability of journalism.
The New York Times maintains that its articles are protected by copyright law and that OpenAI and Microsoft have infringed its rights by copying, distributing, displaying and creating derivative works of its content. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to prevent OpenAI and Microsoft from using its articles, as well as damages and attorneys' fees.
OpenAI and Microsoft have not yet responded to the lawsuit, but have previously defended their use of publicly available data to train their artificial intelligence systems. They have also stated that their models are intended for research and innovation purposes, and that they have ethical guidelines and safeguards to prevent misuse and abuse of their technology.
The lawsuit raises important questions about the legal and ethical implications of natural language generation, a rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence that has many potential applications and challenges. It also highlights the tension between the interests of content creators and technology developers, who may have different views on how to balance innovation and protection in the digital age.
OpenAI and Microsoft face legal action from New York Times over AI training data
The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using millions of their articles to train their artificial intelligence models without authorization. The lawsuit alleges that the companies' large language models (LLMs), which can produce natural language text on various topics, have copied, summarized and imitated the content and style of the Times.
LLMs are the basis of the companies' chatbot products, ChatGPT and Copilot, which can interact with users and generate code snippets respectively. The lawsuit claims that the companies have violated the Times' copyright and trademark rights, as well as its moral rights, by using its works to educate their LLMs.
The lawsuit claims that the companies have used content from various sources to fuel their LLMs, but have given special weight to Times content, recognizing its quality and value. The lawsuit argues that this constitutes unfair use of the Times' works and that the companies have benefited from the Times' reputation and investment.
The lawsuit seeks to prevent companies from using Times content to train their LLMs in the future and to remove Times content from their existing data sets. It also demands that the companies pay "billions of dollars in legal and actual damages" for their infringement.
The lawsuit is one of the first legal challenges to the use of large-scale web scraping to train AI models and raises important questions about the ethical and legal implications of such practices. The case could have important implications for the future of journalism and the development of AI.
