A group of publications that include: Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and that Orlando Sentinel are suing Microsoft and OpenAI, as reported by The edge. The eight publications in this particular lawsuit, all owned by Alden Capital Group (ACG), accuse the companies of stealing “millions” of their copyrighted articles “without permission and without payment in order to further commercialize their generative artificial intelligence products, including ChatGPT , to move forward.” and copilot.”
This is just the latest lawsuit filed against Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of copyrighted materials without the express permission of the publishers. The New York Times Famously, the company also sued the companies late last year, claiming they had used “nearly a century of copyrighted content.” Your products can cause vomiting Just’ Articles verbatim and may “mimic her expressive style,” the release said, although there was no prior licensing agreement. In a motion to dismiss significant portions of the lawsuit, Microsoft accused the Just of doomsday futurology by claiming that generative AI can pose a threat to independent journalism.
ACG’s newspapers have the same complaint, with the company’s chatbots reproducing their articles word for word shortly after publication, without a prominent link back to the sources. They cited several examples in their complaint. In addition, the chatbots apparently suffer from hallucinations and assume that ACG’s publications are incorrectly reported. The publisher argued that the defendants pay for the computers, specialized chips and electricity they use to build and operate their generative AI products. And yet they use copyrighted articles “without permission and without paying for the privilege,” even though they need content to train their large language models. The plaintiffs pointed to OpenAI’s previous admission that it was “impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted material.”
OpenAI is no longer a nonprofit company, the plaintiffs said, and is now worth $90 billion. Meanwhile, ChatGPT and Copilot “increased Microsoft’s market value by hundreds of billions of dollars.” The publications seek unspecified damages and ask the court to order the defendants to destroy GPT and LLM models that use their materials.