Microsoft and OpenAI are collecting more lawsuits than data to train their AI models. Many of the lawsuits center around copyright infringement, since AI models need to be existing data across the internet. Now, The Intercept, Raw Story, and Alternate have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft regarding a similar subject.
At this point, we’re all still navigating the legal aspect of generative AI. In order to be trained on data, companies will use crawlers to scour the internet. Well, some of the content that’s being collected is actually copyrighted content. Companies like the New York Times have five lawsuits against OpenAI because its content is copyrighted and hidden behind the paywall. The same thing goes for other major publications. The main thing that the plaintiffs complain about is the fact that ChatGPT allegedly takes and redistributes major sections of the copyright works verbatim, which constitutes copyright infringement.
The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet have filed lawsuits against OpenAI
The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet are all news publications that have been around for some time. In fact, Raw Story is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. So, since these are news sites, they are subject to OpenAI’s crawlers.
The three companies have filed lawsuits against both OpenAI and Microsoft over how ChatGPT uses their copyrighted works. They have filed separate lawsuits, but they’re all being litigated by the same New York law firm.
The three companies alleged that ChatGPT reproduces “verbatim or nearly verbatim copyright protective works of journalism without providing author, title, copyright or terms of use information contained in those works.” So, the companies are saying that tools like ChatGPT are reproducing parts of the company’s copyrighted works word for word. However, it’s not giving proper acknowledgment to the publications or writers.
Acknowledgment is a major rule in journalism. If you quote another publication’s article or use it as a source, you’re obligated to acknowledge the source by mentioning the publication’s name or providing a link. However, using ChatGPT and other models powered by OpenAI’s models, you will get results that give zero acknowledgment to the publications or writers.
Neither The Intercept, Raw Story, nor AlterNet commented on the lawsuits against OpenAI. We’re not certain how this lawsuit is going to turn out. It’s still new, so the details are being hashed out. Will keep you updated on how the story develops.
2024-02-29 15:04:20