New York Times Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft Over ChatGPT Training with Their News – Latest Updates
The New York Times (NYT) has taken legal action against Microsoft and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, alleging copyright infringement and misuse of the newspaper’s intellectual property. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, claims that millions of NYT articles were used without permission or payment to train artificial intelligence and large language model systems. It accuses the companies of copying information from various sources but giving “special importance” to the content of the NYT.
This lawsuit marks NYT as the first major media outlet to sue ChatGPT and other popular AI platforms over copyright issues. While no specific monetary demand has been made, NYT is calling on OpenAI, worth $80 billion, and its partner Microsoft, worth $2.8 trillion, to be held responsible for “billions of dollars of legal and actual damages related to the illegal copying and use of the newspaper’s uniquely valuable works.” The companies are also being asked to destroy any chatbot models and training data that use The Times’ copyrighted material.
AFP reported that unlike media groups such as German Axel Springer and AP, which made content agreements with OpenAI, they have chosen to conflict with the lawsuit.
In addition to the lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, the Meta company is also facing copyright infringement allegations. US comedian and writer Sarah Silverman have filed a lawsuit against both OpenAI and Meta, claiming that training artificial intelligence models based on her own work was copyright infringement. Two other writers named Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey have also sued the two companies over similar allegations.
The legal action is not limited to NYT and the individual writers. Music companies, filmmakers, screenwriters, and photo agency Getty are among those who have filed copyright lawsuits against ChatGPT. In response to the growing number of lawsuits, both Microsoft and Google have announced that they will provide legal protection to customers who are being sued for copyright infringement over content produced by their AI.
Overall, these legal battles highlight the growing concerns and complexities surrounding the use of copyrighted material in the development and training of artificial intelligence models. It remains to be seen how these lawsuits will impact the future use of AI technologies and the legal responsibilities of the companies behind them.
