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The Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for training AI models on newspaper work

2023-12-28 02:01:56

The New York Time publisher filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on Wednesday, December 27, suing for copyright infringement. and requests the destruction of ChatGPT along with the large language models and other training packages used by The Times without payment.

This is the first media organization to have filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT, which is a lawsuit worth keeping an eye on because it may set the tone for AI laws in the future. The content of this lawsuit, The New York Time, claims that ChatGPT and Bing Chat Long copies of The New York Times articles are often reproduced verbatim. This allows ChatGPT users to bypass The New York Times' paywall, and the lawsuit claims the AI-generated now rivals the newspaper as a reliable source of information. New York Times lawsuit aims to hold companies accountable must being responsible for "Billions of dollars in legal and actual damages" and attempts to destroy "GPT or any other LLM model and training package that includes Times Works."

The New York Times also claims that it has found a lot of copyright infringement. It has been affected and is concerned that with the advent of the next generation of AI chatbots, there will be fewer people clicking through to news sites. This results in reduced traffic and revenue. The Times has many examples of GPT-4 producing altered versions of content published by newspapers.

OpenAI has not yet responded to the New York Time's allegations.

We now have to follow the court's decision on this matter. This is considered to be a new standard and a foundation for determining future laws.