In recent news, several digital media outlets have filed lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement. The plaintiffs include The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet, who claim that OpenAI’s AI systems, such as ChatGPT, were trained on their copyrighted content without permission. The New York Times has also filed a similar lawsuit.
These lawsuits are part of a growing trend of media organizations pushing back against AI companies’ methods of scraping content off the internet to train their AI systems. The outcome of these cases could have a significant impact on the future of AI development and the use of copyrighted material in training these systems.
OpenAI has responded to The New York Times’ lawsuit, requesting that the court dismiss parts of the case. They argue that the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other AI systems to generate misleading evidence for the case. OpenAI maintains that they will ultimately prevail because “no one—not even the New York Times—gets to monopolize facts or the rules of language.”
