From The Hollywood Reporter: 2024-04-30 14:55:24

Eight daily newspapers have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, accusing the firms of using thousands of articles to train AI systems for products like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. The publishers, including Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News, are seeking monetary damages and the destruction of AI systems containing their articles.

The lawsuit against OpenAI expands a legal battle over AI technology using copyrighted articles without permission. The publishers claim that the chatbots developed by OpenAI and Microsoft offer full articles, including verbatim excerpts, to users, directly competing against the publishers and depriving them of subscription revenue.

In response to the lawsuit, OpenAI denied accusations of copyright infringement, stating that they don’t intentionally manipulate prompts to generate word-for-word excerpts. Other publishers like Financial Times have reached licensing deals with OpenAI, but lawsuits, including one by The New York Times, challenge the technology’s impact on media consumption and revenue.

The publishers argue that AI systems like ChatGPT and Copilot are reproducing entire articles without permission, circumventing paywalls, and depriving them of traffic and subscription revenue. They claim that AI companies should be held liable for copyright infringement, as they knowingly reproduce copyrighted content and offer tools to bypass paywalls.



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