Dec 27, 2023Confirmed
The New York Times Reportedly Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Alleged Unauthorized AI Training on Its Content
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The New York Times alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of its articles without permission to train AI models, including ChatGPT. The lawsuit claims the companies scraped and reproduced copyrighted content without compensation, in turn undermining the Times’s business and competing with its journalism. Some AI outputs allegedly regurgitate Times articles verbatim. The lawsuit seeks damages and demands the destruction of AI models trained on its content.
What this means for youIf you publish writing online, AI companies may have used it to train their models without permission. Courts are now deciding whether that is allowed, and the outcome could affect what AI tools can legally be built from.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/995
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