The New York Times Intends To Sue Microsoft & OpenAI
The US news publisher of the New York Times (NYT) is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the two companies built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the publication’s articles and now “directly compete” with its content as a result.
Microsoft, says the firms should be held responsible for "billions of dollars" in damages. Microsoft both invests in and supplies OpenAI, providing it with access to the company’s Azure cloud computing technology.
The publisher said in a filing in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York that it seeks to hold Microsoft and OpenAI to account for the “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” it believes it is owed for the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.”
The complaint also argues that these AI models “threaten high-quality journalism” by hurting the ability of news outlets to protect and monetise content.
The NYT is one of numerous media organisations pursuing compensation from companies behind some of the most advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, for the alleged usage of their content to train AI programs.
OpenAI is the creator of GPT, a large language model that can produce content in response to user prompts. It uses billions of parameters’ worth of information, which is obtained from public web data up until 2021.
ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) "learn" by analysing a massive amount of data often sourced online.
The lawsuit claims articles published by the NYT were used without its permission to make ChatGPT smarter, and that the tool is now competing with the newspaper as a trustworthy information source.
This lawsuit comes after a period of chaos at OpenAI where co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was fired and then rehired and now the firm is now facing multiple lawsuits filed in 2023.
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