The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work
Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train
chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright
infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly
intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to
train artificial intelligence technologies.
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html
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