From the “Expect to see more of this coming soon” file comes news that that The New York Times is suing Microsoft and OpenAI for using its work to train their AI models. The argument is that doing so infringes on their copyright:
The Times is the first major American media organization to sue the companies, the creators of ChatGPT and other popular A.I. platforms, over copyright issues associated with its written works. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, contends that millions of articles published by The Times were used to train automated chatbots that now compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information.
The suit does not include an exact monetary demand. But it says the defendants should be held responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.” It also calls for the companies to destroy any chatbot models and training data that use copyrighted material from The Times.
Microsoft declined to comment on the case. OpenAI did not immediately provide a comment.
The lawsuit could test the emerging legal contours of generative A.I. technologies — so called for the text, images and other content they can create after learning from large data sets — and could carry major implications for the news industry. The Times is among a small number of outlets that have built successful business models from online journalism, but dozens of newspapers and magazines have been hobbled by readers’ migration to the internet.
OpenAI and Microsoft who have an alliance as Microsoft has invested in OpenAI are the prime targets for this sort of thing as they have the deepest pockets. But I fully expect other media companies to start filing lawsuits against any AI company that does anything similar to this. Oh, in case you were wondering, these lawsuits won’t likely include Apple which for the record wants to cut a deal to license content to train its AI models. Which is the correct thing to do in my opinion.
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New York Times Sues OpenAI And Microsoft
From the “Expect to see more of this coming soon” file comes news that that The New York Times is suing Microsoft and OpenAI for using its work to train their AI models. The argument is that doing so infringes on their copyright:
The Times is the first major American media organization to sue the companies, the creators of ChatGPT and other popular A.I. platforms, over copyright issues associated with its written works. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, contends that millions of articles published by The Times were used to train automated chatbots that now compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information.
The suit does not include an exact monetary demand. But it says the defendants should be held responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.” It also calls for the companies to destroy any chatbot models and training data that use copyrighted material from The Times.
Microsoft declined to comment on the case. OpenAI did not immediately provide a comment.
The lawsuit could test the emerging legal contours of generative A.I. technologies — so called for the text, images and other content they can create after learning from large data sets — and could carry major implications for the news industry. The Times is among a small number of outlets that have built successful business models from online journalism, but dozens of newspapers and magazines have been hobbled by readers’ migration to the internet.
OpenAI and Microsoft who have an alliance as Microsoft has invested in OpenAI are the prime targets for this sort of thing as they have the deepest pockets. But I fully expect other media companies to start filing lawsuits against any AI company that does anything similar to this. Oh, in case you were wondering, these lawsuits won’t likely include Apple which for the record wants to cut a deal to license content to train its AI models. Which is the correct thing to do in my opinion.
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