NYT Sues Microsoft And OpenA
The American daily newspaper The New York Times (TNYT) has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation and the developer of the intelligent chatbot ChatGPT OpenAI due to copyright infringement. According to the lawsuit, OpenAI and Microsoft trained their artificial intelligence (AI) systems on millions of TNYT articles.
The New York Times is the third largest newspaper in the United States by circulation, behind only USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. The site’s audience is 30 million visitors per month.
The plaintiff noted that it became the first major American news publication to sue the developers of ChatGPT and other popular AI platforms for alleged copyright infringement related to its materials. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Federal District Court, claims that millions of articles published by the New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with news outlets and claim to be the source of trustworthy information.
The lawsuit does not include an exact amount of damages. But it notes that defendants should be held liable for “billions of dollars in statutory and factual damages” associated with “the unlawful copying and use of works of unique value.” The plaintiff also demands the destruction of chatbot models and training data that use copyrighted training materials. There was no comment from OpenAI or Microsoft.
A few months ago, The New York Times blocked OpenAI’s web crawler, preventing the firm from scraping content from its website and using that data to train artificial intelligence.
