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Eight U.S. newspaper publishers file lawsuit Microsoft OpenAI filed a lawsuit in New York federal court on Tuesday, claiming that technology companies reused their articles in products that generate artificial intelligence without permission and wrongly attributed inaccurate information to the articles.
A group of eight newspaper publishers has raised questions about ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot assistant, which is available in the Windows operating system, the Bing search engine and other products made by the software maker. ChatGPT and Copilot have been “stealing millions of publishers’ copyrighted articles without permission and without payment.” complainthas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The newspaper publishers in the suit operate the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sun-Sentinel in Florida, the Mercury News in California, the Denver Post, the Orange County News in California The Chronicle and the Minnesota Pioneer Press.
The newspaper publisher said in the lawsuit that OpenAI used data sets containing newspaper text to train its GPT-2 and GPT-3 large language models, which can spit out text based on a few words of human input.
“The current GPT-4 LLM will, when prompted, output a near-verbatim copy of a significant portion of a publisher’s work,” the complaint states, showing several examples of ChatGPT and Copilot allegedly doing so.
Publishers say Microsoft copies information from their newspapers for use in the Bing search index, which helps provide answers in Copilot. But such outputs do not always provide links to newspaper websites where they can view ads next to articles or pay for subscriptions.
Representatives for Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
Four months ago, the New York Times sued OpenAI for copyright infringement of the ChatGPT chatbot released by OpenAI at the end of 2022. January Blog Posts The case is baseless, adding that it wants to support a “healthy journalism ecosystem”. That same month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the startup wanted to pay the New York Times and was surprised by the lawsuit.
OpenAI has signed agreements with several media companies in recent months, including Axel Springer and Financial Timeswhich enables Microsoft-backed startups to leverage publisher content to improve artificial intelligence models.
Googlewhich has its own universal chatbot to respond to user queries, explain In February, it Reddit This includes the right to train artificial intelligence models on platform content.
The New York Times case also involves the OpenAI model regurgitating information in its articles. OpenAI described this behavior in its blog post as “a rare failure in our ongoing learning process.”
Correction: This article has been updated to reflect the correct date when the lawsuit was filed against Microsoft and OpenAI.
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