According to the New York Times lawsuit, AI chatbots from Microsoft and OpenAI are creating a threat to press and social freedom.
Sheet New York Times On December 27, it filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation and OpenAI technology company for copyright infringement, claiming that the artificial intelligence (AI) platform ChatGPT developed by these two companies is unfair competition and is threat to freedom of the press and society.
This is considered the first copyright infringement allegation from a major American media organization against ChatGPT. This newspaper asked the federal court in Manhattan to hold Microsoft and OpenAI responsible for “billions of dollars in actual and statutory damages” for illegally copying and using New York content. Times. In addition, the lawsuit also requires Open AI to remove all AI chatbots that use New York Times digital content.
“Microsoft and OpenAI seek to benefit from the New York Times’ huge investment in our journalism,” and accused Microsoft and OpenAI of using New York Times content without paying to create it. substitute products to win over readers of this newspaper.
Microsoft is said to have committed to investing $13 billion in OpenAI and has used some of its technology in the Bing search engine.
In one example cited in the lawsuit, featured Bing browsing results provided by ChatGPT were “copied almost verbatim” from the New York Times product review site Wirecutter, but without attribution of content and removing referral links used by the newspaper to collect advertising fees, resulting in financial losses for the New York Times.
The American newspaper claims that Microsoft and OpenAI “pay particular attention” to the use of New York Times digital content because of “the perceived reliability and accuracy of the data” .
“If the New York Times and other media organizations cannot produce and protect their independent journalism, this will create a void that no computer or artificial intelligence can fill. ”the complaint asserts, adding that the mainstream press will no longer be respected and the budget for journalism in society will also gradually decrease.
Sheet New York Times also said that they tried to talk with OpenAI and Microsoft in April 2023 to find “a friendly solution” to the copyright issue but were unsuccessful. Several other media outlets have reached agreements with OpenAI for the use of their content, including AP and Axel Springer, Politico and Business Insider.
Microsoft and OpenAI have not yet responded to this lawsuit.