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OpenAI Trained AI Models on Copyrighted Work, Says NYT Lawsuit

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The New York Times has launched a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that millions of its articles were improperly used to train AI models which now stand as direct competitors in the information and news landscape.

The lawsuit says OpenAI was “using The Times’s content without payment to create products that substitute for The Times and steal audiences away from it.” This legal action highlights a growing concern over the use of copyrighted material in the development of artificial intelligence tools. The outcome of the lawsuit could play a role in influencing the future landscape of digital content and intellectual property rights if it gains support in court.

“OpenAI and Microsoft have built a business valued into the tens of billions of dollars by taking the combined works of humanity without permission” The New York Times says, “In training their models, Defendants reproduced copyrighted material to exploit precisely what the Copyright Act was designed to protect: the elements of protectible expression within them, like the style, word choice, and arrangement and presentation of facts,” the lawsuit reads.

Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are at the heart of this controversy. LLMs are trained using vast datasets, including texts from books, websites, and articles, to understand and generate language in a human-like manner. They don’t retain specific articles or data. Instead they use them to learn patterns and information structures. This training enables them to produce content across various topics and styles, entering domains traditionally reserved for human experts.

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Author: Jose Antonio Lanz

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