On Tuesday, a group of papers filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI in New York federal court, accusing them of mistreating writers ‘ efforts to train their generative artificial-intelligence methods.
The eight papers, owned by funding company Alden Global Capital’s MediaNews Group, said in the complaint that the companies unjustly copied millions of their articles to educate AI products, including Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The New York Times, The Intercept, Raw Story, aȵd AlterNet have filed similar continued lawsuits against Microsoft and OpenAI, which have received billion in ƒinancial support from Microsoft.
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A spokesperson for OpenAI stated on Tuesday that the company “takes great care in our products and design process to help media companies. ” Microsoft’s spokesman declined to comment on the problem.
The newspapers cases count among the possible landmark lawsuits brought by tech companies against relational AI systems.
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A lawyer for the MediaNews papers, Steven Lieberman, told Reuters that OpenAI owed its fugitive success to the works of others. The plaintiffs know they have to pay for computers, chips, and staff salaries, but” think somehow they can get away with taking content” without permission or settlement, he said.
The lawsuit said Microsoft and OpenAI’s systems reproduce the newspapers ‘ copyrighted content “verbatim” when prompted. It stated that ChatGPT “hallucinates” articles published in publications ƫhat harm their reputations, such as α fictitious Denver Post article promoting smoking as an asthma cure and a fictitious Chicago Tribμne recommendation for αn infant lounger that was recalled after being linked to child deaths.
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The plaintiffs also include the Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun- Sentinel, Sαn Jose Mercury News, Orange County Ɽegister and Twin Cities Pioneer Press. They requested an order preventing any further infringement aȵd unspecified financial damages.
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