New York Times Sues Microsoft & OpenAI for Training AI Models on its Articles
0The New York Times has filed a massive copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT. The media outlet alleges both tech firms illegally trained their artificial intelligence systems on millions of New York Times articles without permission.
The lawsuit seeks billions in damages, claiming Microsoft and OpenAI infringed on the Times' intellectual property at an "unprecedented scale". It states that both companies stole content from the newspaper spanning two decades to "accelerate the development of their AI models".
Models specifically named in the lawsuit include Microsoft's Bing search engine and Edge browser along with OpenAI products like GPT-3, Codex and the wildly popular ChatGPT chatbot. The Times accuses them of copying articles, headlines, photography plus underlying data and metadata.
Tech companies training AI models on vast swathes of online data without explicit permission has opened up complex copyright questions. The New York Times is essentially testing how much legal protection newspapers have over their digital content being used to develop commercial AI systems.
With AI poised for exponential growth, the case may set important precedents around compensation for AI training datasets created via news organizations' reporting and journalism investments. Observers predict a prolonged court battle between technology and media giants.
This video discusses the New York Times' blockbuster lawsuit seeking billions in damages from Microsoft and OpenAI over alleged unauthorized use of its articles.
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