OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has recently come under a lot of criticism for the way it trains its AI model. A new lawsuit has been filed against the company for using paid data for its AI. Several US journalists have launched a new copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.

Are OpenAI and Microsoft violating copyrights?

The New York Times has filed a million-dollar lawsuit against ChatGPT for allegedly infringing the newspaper’s copyrights. According to the US court filing, the NYT claims that millions of its articles were used without permission to train ChatGPT.

According to the company’s statement, this can be seen in the sources provided by ChatGPT. The AI quotes Times articles when asked about current events and cites the NYT when asked for references.

According to the lawsuit, ChatGPT’s behavior threatens the Times’ business model, which “offers its award-winning journalism to readers for free.” This means that people can access Times content without paying for a subscription or generating advertising revenue by clicking through to the newspaper’s site.

Microsoft has invested over 10 billion dollars in OpenAI. In this context, it has increased the integration of services such as search engine Bing and ChatGPT. According to Microsoft, when users search Bing, results may include excerpts from Times sites without links or payment.

The Times also previously asked OpenAI and Microsoft to negotiate an “amicable settlement”. However, the talks failed, making an intellectual property lawsuit inevitable.

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