The Times alleges that its articles have been utilized to train ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, and these systems often show near-word-for-word excerpts from articles in response to users who have reached its paywall, creating competition with its journalism.
Hackers could take advantage of this vulnerability to compromise ChatGPT with malicious content such as phishing links or malware, according to the suit filed against ChatGPT in federal court. As part of its response to this action, ChatGPT asked that its training dataset be destroyed so as to force its models to recreate themselves only using approved materials.
Altman says ChatGPT doesn’t need New York Times data amid lawsuit
The New York Times is taking legal action against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging they violated its copyright by using millions of its articles without consent to train AI chatbots such as ChatGPT. They claim this creates competition to their publication while diverting readers away from its website.
Altman said he doesn’t believe the Times has a strong case and said this lawsuit was nothing more than an effort to generate headlines for what has already become an overblown AI-focused story. Altman further commented that he wasn’t concerned with this legal battle and finding a resolution wasn’t top priority for his company.
According to The Times’ lawsuit, ChatGPT companies’ use of articles from The New York Times violates its copyright as it constitutes a significant portion of training data for ChatGPT. Accordingly, The Times seeks damages as well as an injunction that prohibits these companies from using its articles to create similar products.
This lawsuit is just the latest chapter in an increasingly heated legal dispute surrounding how to best safeguard intellectual property rights in an age of AI-generated creativity. Other companies are facing copyright infringement suits from authors such as George RR Martin and John Grisham, too.
At the end of the day, it will ultimately be up to a judge to determine whether an answer provided by ChatGPT, or other AI language models, constitutes an infringement on copyright laws. If they determine that this has indeed occurred, penalties or remedies could be assessed and ordered accordingly by the court.
An impending suit by The Times would mark one of the highest profile legal battles yet over copyright protection in an age of generative AI. They fear tech companies such as Google and Microsoft using AI-generated text on search engines could create direct competitors to them and thus diminish both readership and ad revenues for them.
New York Times Lawsuit Came as an Unexpected Shock
The New York Times’ lawsuit against the founders of AI chatbot maker ChatGPT has become the subject of much discussion, yet its legal action also brings into focus an important underlying issue: how companies use and pay for data used to train generative AI models.
Sam Altman wrote on Monday in a blog post for MediaVista that the New York Times lawsuit came as an unexpected shock, given their company had recently engaged in “productive negotiations.” However, Altman took issue with their argument that Altman and partner Ike Sutskever used articles they themselves wrote to develop software products without authorisation from publishers like NYT.
He noted that, without access to the Times’ content, it would have been impossible for them to reproduce its stories verbatim. Therefore, they relied on content sourced from across the web in order to train language models that power ChatGPT’s AI technology and generate AI stories.
However, The New York Times complaint raises an interesting point about how much of publishers’ work can be used to train generative AI and whether that constitutes copyright infringement. According to its allegations, ChatGPT infringed upon its rights by permitting users to request summaries behind paywalls without permission and using those articles without authorisation.
Though this lawsuit against a San Francisco start-up focuses specifically on their generative AI product, it exemplifies a larger trend of copyright holders seeking compensation from tech companies for using their work in artificial intelligence products. PYMNTS has previously reported on increasing cases involving unapproved use of published content to train machine learning algorithms.
But the New York Times lawsuit could set an important legal precedent in how companies utilize data to train AI systems. Industry observers anticipate more copyright holders filing suit against companies using AI who fail to properly credit and compensate organizations that provide data.
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