The newspaper doesn’t like that the AI was trained on its materials
The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI over ChatGPT.
More specifically, the companies are accused of creating their large artificial intelligence language models using millions of articles from The New York Times. Among other things, because of this, chatbot responses are now «directly competing» with publication materials.
The New York Times says ChatGPT and Copilot «can generate output that reproduces Times content verbatim, accurately summarizes it and imitates its expressive style». The publication says this undermines and harms the Times' relationship with readers, and also deprives it of “subscriptions, licensing, advertising and affiliate income.”
In general, The New York Times believes that they suffered seriously financially due to the actions of Microsoft and OpenAI, but these same companies, on the contrary, earned a lot thanks to AI. < /p>
But, in addition, the publication argues that, in general, such language patterns threaten high-quality journalism. The New York Times notes that it has been negotiating with the companies for several months, but they have led nowhere. True, OpenAI says that the negotiations were productive and were moving towards some kind of outcome.
As a result, The New York Times wants to recover billions of dollars from the defendants and asks the court to prohibit these companies from training their AI using the publication’s materials, and at the same time remove the works of The New York Times from the data sets of the companies on which they train the AI .