Three prominent digital media companies, including The Intercept, have filed suit against AI giants OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement related to the ChatGPT chatbot.
The Verge report The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet recently filed separate lawsuits in the Southern District of New York alleging that ChatGPT reproduces verbatim or near-verbatim excerpts from copyrighted journalistic works without proper attribution. He is said to have filed a lawsuit. All of these lawsuits are represented by the same law firm, and ChatGPT’s training data may include complete articles with author names, publication names, and other copyright information intact. They claim it’s expensive. However, the AI model does not convey this information when generating a response. This indicates that the data was intentionally removed or modified during training.
The OpenAI logo appears on a screen with the ChatGPT website displayed on a mobile, December 12, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The publication cites ChatGPT’s ability to reproduce long passages from books and articles as proof that it was trained on complete copyrighted text. Raw Story and AlterNet’s lawsuit goes further, alleging that OpenAI and Microsoft had an incentive to remove copyright information to make it appear to users that ChatGPT did not infringe on third-party copyrights. ing. The companies offer business customers legal protection against copyright lawsuits related to the use of Copilot and ChatGPT.
These lawsuits point to OpenAI’s opt-out system that allows website owners to block content from web scrapers, and point out that OpenAI and Microsoft are aware of the potential for copyright infringement. The companies have faced previous claims of intentionally removing metadata, including an earlier lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, which was partially dismissed on that specific claim. It was done. However, the core claim of overall copyright infringement remains active.
Similar accusations have been made in recent months against other AI companies, including Stability AI and Anthropic, as their generative models produce more human-like sentences. Major media such as new york times In addition, OpenAI has filed a lawsuit over ChatGPT for regurgitating the full text of the article, but OpenAI claims as follows. times A bug was exploited to force the behavior.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering free speech and online censorship issues.
