The New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft

Chat bots developed with artificial intelligence and large language models,requires large amounts of data to be trained. Since researchers do not have the time to sit down and write millions of pages of text and provide information on every subject, they use content they find on the internet.

The fact that productive minds use source materials produced by humans to create something, of course, brings about copyright discussions. Finally The New York TimesTo prevent the use of articles in artificial intelligence education OpenAI And Microsoft took it to court.

Press organizations are in trouble with artificial intelligence

The New York Times’ claim in its application to the court is that OpenAI and Microsoft billions of dollars It happened that he stole his journalistic work. The newspaper even showed that in some cases, artificial intelligence bots used NYT materials verbatim. In fact, NYT had been negotiating with both companies since April, but when no results were obtained, they applied to the federal court.

Traditional media is already changing with the transition to digital platforms. He had suffered a serious blow. Although some of the newspapers managed to find a place for themselves in the digital market, they began to feel threatened once again with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. Essentially, there needs to be traffic for the advertising revenues that keep digital news platforms afloat. Artificial intelligence tools separate this traffic from the original source. That’s why revenues of news portals is falling.

OpenAI: “We are disappointed.”

Ian B. Crosby, representing the NYT, “These bots are compatible with the content used in their training. is competing.” He made a statement. A press spokesperson from OpenAI stated that their conversations with the New York Times It was very productive and they were both surprised and upset that the newspaper went to court. they were disappointed told. Stating that he believes that they can make a mutually beneficial agreement with the newspaper, as with many other publishers, the spokesperson said that the company will continue to respect the rights of content producers and create new income sources for them.

Microsoft has not yet made a statement on the issue. Not just Microsoft and OpenAI, but almost every productive AI developer faces such lawsuits. copyright regulations We will see together how it will respond to artificial intelligence.