Center for Investigative Reporting, the nation’s oldest nonprofit news center Mother Jones and to discover OpenAI sued Microsoft in federal court Thursday, alleging it used its content to train artificial intelligence models without consent or compensation. It’s the latest in a long line of lawsuits filed by publishers and creators accusing generative AI companies of copyright infringement.
“OpenAI and Microsoft began cleaning up our stories to make their products more powerful, but unlike other organizations that license our materials, they never asked for permission or offered compensation,” said Monica Bauerlein, CEO of the Center for Investigative Reporting. statement. “This free rider behavior is not only unfair, but also copyright infringement. The work of journalists at CIR and everywhere is valuable, and OpenAI and Microsoft know it.” Bauerlein said OpenAI and Microsoft treat the work of nonprofits and independent publishers as “free raw materials for their products,” adding that such actions by generative AI companies harm the public’s access to accurate information in a “disappearing news landscape.”
OpenAI and Microsoft did not respond to Engadget’s request for comment.
CIRs claimFiled in federal court in Manhattan, it accuses OpenAI and Microsoft, which owns about half of the company, of multiple violations of the Copyright Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
News organizations find themselves at an inflection point with generative artificial intelligence. In case of CIR connection publishers like it The New York Times, New York Daily News, The Intercept, AlterNet and Chicago Tribune While suing OpenAI, other publishers chose to enter into licensing agreements with the company. These deals will allow OpenAI to train its models on archives and ongoing content published by these publishers, and feed them into responses offered by ChatGPT.
The day CIR sued OpenAI, for example TIME Journal announced a contract with the company giving access to the 101-year-old archive. OpenAI last month signed $250 million multi-year deal with owner News Corp The Wall Street Journal, training models on more than a dozen brands owned by the publisher. The Financial Times, Axel Springer (owner Politics and Business Insider), Associated Press and Dotdash Meredith It has also signed contracts with OpenAI.
