Lawsuit Filed by New York Times Against OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Training with Articles

On Wednesday, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the tech companies of using its copyrighted articles to train their artificial intelligence (AI) technology without permission or compensation. The lawsuit claims that OpenAI and Microsoft utilized "millions" of Times articles to develop their lucrative tech, which directly competes with the newspaper's own services. The Times has been attempting to negotiate an agreement with the companies for months, but no resolution has been reached. OpenAI expressed surprise and disappointment with the lawsuit, stating that they respect the rights of content creators. Microsoft did not provide a comment on the matter. The lawsuit highlights instances where OpenAI's AI model outputted New York Times articles verbatim, potentially strengthening the case for copyright infringement. This lawsuit is part of a larger trend of artists, authors, musicians, and other creative professionals seeking credit and compensation from tech companies that have used their work to build tools that they believe undermine their own creations.
Since August, numerous news organizations, including prominent ones like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Reuters, have implemented blockers on their websites to prevent tech companies from scraping their articles. However, it is likely that their extensive online archives, spanning several decades, have already been utilized to develop AI tools.

The Washington Post expressed its support for The New York Times's decision to protect copyright principles while closely examining the complaint.

OpenAI has been engaging in negotiations with news organizations for the past year, aiming to compensate them for their content. In July, OpenAI reached an agreement with the Associated Press, granting access to its collection of news articles. OpenAI maintains that its practices are compliant with copyright laws and that the agreements it is pursuing are intended solely for accessing content not available online or for displaying links or sections of articles in ChatGPT.

Axel Springer, a German publishing company that owns Politico and Business Insider, recently entered into a deal with OpenAI. As part of the agreement, OpenAI will pay to include excerpts from articles in ChatGPT responses. Additionally, earlier this year, Google approached media outlets with proposals to develop and sell AI tools designed to assist journalists.

Islam Gamal
By : Islam Gamal
Islam Gamal is professional journalist and editor scine 2018 , graduated from Asyat University in the Department of Journalism I write in several fields work - entertainment - sports - health - science IslamGamal@ex9x.com
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