In what may be a landmark case, the New York Times has sued Open AI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, saying the publication’s content is being by the platform to feed automated chatbots, constituting “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.”
It’s the first time a major media organization has sued an AI platforms although there are a handful of pending cases brought by IP owners from Sarah Silverman to John Grisham to Getty Images.
The suit says Open AI should be responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” chatbot and training models that use copyrighted material from The Times should be destroyed.
Generative AI, a surging and well-funded field led by Microsoft’s Open AI trains chatbots on large data sets. The suit says the platform uses “The Times’s content without payment to create products that substitute for The Times and steal audiences away from it.”
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