Eight American newspapers sued the companies this Tuesday OpenAI and Microsoft before a federal court in New York for alleged violation of his copyright to train the technology of Artificial Intelligence (AI) behind the chatbots ChatGPT and Copilot.
The media, including The New York Daily News and The Chicago Tribune, are owned by Alden Global Capital, an investment fund based in the state of Florida that created the second largest newspaper group in the United States after Gannett, owner of USA Today, when it bought the Tribune publishing conglomerate, in 2021.
“This lawsuit arises because the defendants have stolen millions of copyrighted articles from the media without permission and without payment to boost the commercialization of their generative artificial intelligence products, including ChatGPT and Copilot (from Microsoft)”according to the demand.
“As this lawsuit will demonstrate, defendants must obtain the media’s consent to use their content and pay a fair value for such use.”is maintained in the judicial document.
OpenAI and its funder Microsoft were also accused of providing verbatim excerpts from entire articles, as well as attributing misleading or inaccurate information to publications in certain applications.
Other newspapers involved in the lawsuit include The Orlando Sentinel, The Florida Sun Sentinel, The San Jose Mercury News, The Denver Post, The Orange County Register and The St. Paul Pioneer Press.
In a statement, OpenAI did not address the allegations specifically, but said the company takes “great care” with its products and design process to “support news organizations.”
ChatGPT’s parent company pointed out the “constructive partnerships and conversations with many news organizations around the world to explore opportunities, discuss any concerns and provide solutions.”
He was referring to the media that has been associated with the “start-up” instead of going to court.
Among them are the international agency The Associated Press, the Financial Times, the German Axel Springer, the French newspaper Le Monde and the Spanish conglomerate Prisa Media.
The lawsuit announced this Tuesday is similar to the process presented by The New York Times in December, in which OpenAI is also accused of stealing content to train its powerful AI model.
In that case, OpenAI vigorously defended itself, arguing that drawing on publicly available data to power its platform, including news articles, constitutes fair use.
OpenAI also accused The New York Times of violating ChatGPT’s usage guidelines to generate the content that was submitted to support its lawsuit. Microsoft declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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Source: Gestion
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