New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI alleging copyright infringements on AI Chatbots،
Microsoft's recently launched Copilot AI and OpenAI's wildly popular ChatGPT both found themselves in a sticky situation after one of the biggest publications, The New York Times, filed a lawsuit against both Generative chatbots AI, alleging them of copyright infringement. The Times claims these companies gargled millions of articles to train their AI models, holding them liable for billions of dollars in legal and actual damages.
The Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement
Earlier Wednesday, The Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in federal district court in Manhattan. The lawsuit alleges that the two companies used millions of articles available in the Times to train their large language models (LLMs), namely OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot.
The publication called it a copyright violation and cited billions of dollars and actual and legal damages. However, the publication did not mention the exact monetary requirements at the time of writing.
The what and how?
You may be wondering what copyright infringement is and how OpenAI and Microsoft were accused of doing it.
It turns out that both companies are using millions of articles published in the “Times” to train their AI chatbots. This is how these chatbots can generate responses every time you ask a question and invite the chatbots. It turns out that these chatbots can gargle large amounts of data and based on the available information, they respond to the user's query based on the algorithms and parameters designed under the hood.
The New York Times believes this is a violation of the copyright and intellectual property rights of millions of articles mentioned earlier. These chatbots can browse Times content verbatim, summarize content, and respond to user queries, often imitating the expressive styles of the referenced or trained dataset.
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In addition, this endangers the activity of information publishing, because it has fewer means to monetize its content. They characterized the defendants as people who would profit for free from content created by the publications, their content creators and owners.
The Times mentioned speaking to Microsoft and OpenAI about their concerns about using their data to train chatbots. They even discussed adding safeguards to this process, but no resolution was reached.
OpenAI says it is in talks with the Times and “acting constructively,” including discovering new revenue streams for publications like the New York Times and its partners.
It remains to be seen how the story will unfold. This could set a benchmark for both technology companies and the entire information industry as we move forward.
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