The NYT notes that artificial intelligence tools created by OpenAI and Microsoft, built in part on its materials, have contributed to a significant increase in their value. Therefore, they consider it a violation of copyright and filed a lawsuit.
The NYT filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI
The New York Times (NYT) is suing Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement. The news publisher claims AI tools are using its content without permission.
The Wall Street Journal writes about it.
Instead, the tech companies said training AI using web content is "fair use."
According to the WSJ, the lawsuit could have far-reaching implications for the future of news publishers.
In a lawsuit filed Dec. 27, the newspaper said tech companies used its content without permission to build their AI products, including OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot and Microsoft's Copilot. These tools have been trained on millions of articles published in the NYT and use that material to answer user queries.
The lawsuit opens a new front in the years-long battle between technology and media companies over the Internet economy, pitting one of the news industry's biggest players against the pioneers of a new wave of artificial intelligence, the WSJ adds.
OpenAI began gaining traction last year with the release of ChatGPT, which wowed users by generating responses to user queries about anything from a salsa recipe to a travel itinerary to Greece to information on historical events.
Microsoft became the leading partner of OpenAI, agreeing to invest $ 13 billion in the company in exchange for 49% of its profits.
The NYT notes that artificial intelligence tools created by OpenAI and Microsoft, built partly on its content, have significantly increased their value.
Using other people's valuable intellectual property in this way without paying for it was extremely profitable for the defendants, the newspaper claims.
OpenAI is scaling: there are plans to attract multi-billion dollar investments
The company OpenAI, which developed a chatbot based on artificial intelligence ChatGPT, is conducting negotiations for $100 billion of investment.
Bloomberg reports this.
The publication, citing its sources, notes that the terms, assessment and terms of the financing round have not yet been finalised and may change.
OpenAI has also held talks to raise funding for a new chip manufacturing venture with Abu Dhabi-based G42.
It is currently unclear whether the chip development venture and the company's broader financing are connected. OpenAI has discussed raising $8 to $10 billion from the G42.
OpenAI plans to complete a separate tender offer led by Thrive Capital in early January, which will allow company employees to sell shares at a price of $86 billion, the report said.
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