greenwoodbingo| Eight news organizations sue OpenAI, Microsoft accuses its AI tools of copyright infringement

Xinhua News Agency, May 1 (Editor Niu Zhanlin) eight US news organizations filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York on Tuesday, accusing the two companies of using their news works to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) without permission.

It is reported that the eight news organizations are the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, Mercury, the Denver Post, Vanguard News, and so on. they all belong to a hedge fund called Alden Global Capital.

These news organizations accused Microsoft's Copilot and OpenAI's ChatGPT of illegally copying millions of articles to train AI models.

The complaint also mentions that Microsoft and OpenAI's AI sometimes copies copyrighted news works verbatim or almost verbatim, but does not provide information on the author, title, copyright or terms of use of those works. To make matters worse, ChatGPT also "forged" articles that damaged his reputation, such as a fake article in the Denver Post that promoted smoking as a cure for asthma.

These news organizations are demanding compensation from OpenAI and Microsoft for their losses and to stop further copyright infringement.

A spokesman for OpenAI said Tuesday that the company attaches great importance to supporting news organizations in the product development and design process. "although we were not aware of Alden's concerns before, we are actively building constructive partnerships and dialogues with many news organizations around the world to explore opportunities to discuss any issues and provide solutions."

This follows similar lawsuits filed by the New York Times and three other news organizations, The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet, against Microsoft and OpenAI.

Steven Lieberman, a lawyer in the news industry, commented that OpenAI's great success is also due to it.GreenwoodbingoFor the work of others, it acquires a lot of high-quality content without permission or payment.

The New York Times revealed this month that OpenAI, Google, Meta and other companies have illegally used data from "multiple sources" in order to obtain training corpus by revising policy provisions and ignoring the rules governing the use of Internet information.

Behind all this is that the more data used to train big language models, the better it will perform, but now technology companies are using data faster than data production, and have even exhausted all reliable English text resources on the Internet.

Copyright cooperation

At the same time, technology companies are reaching cooperation agreements with news organizations. Just this week, the Financial Times (FT) announced an agreement with OpenAI to authorize the latter to use its database to train AI models.

In January, OpenAI said it was negotiating article licensing agreements with dozens of publishers. So far, in addition to FT, OpenAI has reached agreements with the Associated Press of the United States, Springer of Germany, Le Monde of France and Prisa Media of Spain.

OpenAI offers licensing fees of $1 million to $5 million a year to some media companies, which is much lower than those offered by other companies such as Apple.

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