The New York Times, one of the world’s most prestigious and influential newspapers, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of violating its intellectual property rights by using its 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 enhance their natural language generation models, such as GPT-3 and GPT-4. The lawsuit claims that these models are capable of producing text that is indistinguishable from the original articles and pose a threat to the quality, credibility and profitability of journalism.
The New York Times contends 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 from 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 claimed that their models are intended for research and innovation purposes, and that they have ethical guidelines and safeguards in place 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 by New York Times over AI training data
El New York Times ha presentado una demanda contra OpenAI y Microsoft, acusándolos de utilizar millones de sus artÃculos para entrenar sus modelos de inteligencia artificial sin autorización. La demanda alega que los grandes modelos de lenguaje (LLM) de las empresas, que pueden producir textos en lenguaje natural sobre diversos temas, han copiado, resumido e imitado el contenido y el estilo del Times.
The LLMs are the basis for 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 form its LLMs.
The lawsuit claims that the companies have used content from a variety of sources to fuel their LLMs, but have given particular 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 the 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 statutory 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 AI development.
