According to CNBC, on April 30, local time, eight U.S. newspaperspublisheragainst Microsoft in a federal court in New York,OpenAI filed a lawsuit claiming that the latterReusing articles created by these publishers in generative AI products without permission, and also blaming the publishers themselves for inaccuracies in the information.
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According to a complaint filed by eight publishers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, ChatGPT has been misappropriating the publishers' copyrights "without permission and without payment".Millions of copyrighted articles.
Publishers involved in the lawsuit include the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, the Florida Sun-Sentinel, the San Jose Mercury News, the Denver Post, the Orange County Chronicle, and the Pioneer Press, all of which are owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital.
The publishers said in their allegations that OpenAI used datasets containing text from their newspapers to train its GPT-2 and GPT-3 models; and that Microsoft copied information from newspapers for use in Bing search indexing or as a source of information for answers provided by its AI assistants. "The current GPT-4 LLM, when prompted by thewill output a near verbatim copy of a significant portion of the publisher's work.”
In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "unaware" of Alden Global Capital's concerns, but is now actively engaged in "constructive" collaboration and dialog with multiple news organizations around the world to explore opportunities, address concerns and provide solutions. Microsoft declined to comment.