OpenAI is being sued again for copying and replicating news stories
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Three US digital publications The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet have filed two class action lawsuits against OpenAI. The plaintiffs accuse the technology firm of mass copying copyrighted journalistic material for training chatbot ChatGPT without permission or compensation.
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The Intercept filed one lawsuit, and because Raw Story and AlterNet are owned by the same organisation, it filed a second. Both cases are being handled by the same law firm, Loevy & Loevy.
The Intercept has also filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, which supports OpenAI and uses the company's technology.
According to the lawsuits, the defendants violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) because they removed data about the authors and sources of copied texts. This allowed the companies to create a chatbot that does not respect the media's intellectual property rights.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs allege that OpenAI and Microsoft used at least three publicly available text datasets, which included thousands of their clients' articles, to train ChatGPT. The chatbot, they say, is capable of generating content similar to those articles.
The journalistic outlets are seeking an injunction against the use of their material for AI training, as well as damages.
Go Deeper:
- The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the publication's use of its materials to train AI
- OpenAI has responded to The New York Times' lawsuit accusing the newspaper of manipulation
- OpenAI accused the NYT of tricking ChatGPT into reproducing copyrighted articles
Source: The Register