{"id":9612,"date":"2024-01-08T16:12:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/openai-and-microsoft-face-copyright-infringement-allegations-in-ai-training\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:12:35","slug":"openai-and-microsoft-face-copyright-infringement-allegations-in-ai-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/openai-and-microsoft-face-copyright-infringement-allegations-in-ai-training\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI and Microsoft Face Copyright Infringement Allegations in AI Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 5, American writers Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage filed a lawsuit<\/a> against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of stealing their works to train large language AI models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs are seeking $150,000 in compensation for each documented instance of copyright infringement.<\/p>\n

At the end of last month, on December 27, The New York Times (NYT) filed a similar lawsuit<\/a> against the firms. According to the documents, the defendants unlawfully used the publication’s content to train chatbots.<\/p>\n

Specifically, NYT claims that AI tools Bing and ChatGPT generate verbatim excerpts from their content.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Comparison of the publication’s material and GPT-4’s response. Data: NYT lawsuit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In April 2023, the publication had already attempted to address the issue of intellectual property in the context of large language models and to “explore the possibility of an amicable resolution,” but to no avail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the newspaper filed a lawsuit seeking damages for harm caused, amounting to “billions of dollars.”<\/p>\n

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“By using Times content without permission in their tools, the defendants undermine and harm the magazine’s relationship with its readers, depriving the magazine of subscriptions, licenses, advertising, and partnership revenues,” stated NYT.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Intellectual property lawyer Cecilia Ziniti wrote on X that the situation is “the best case” proving copyright violations in the application of AI.<\/p>\n

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1\/ First, the complaint clearly lays out the claim of copyright infringement, highlighting the ‘access & substantial similarity’ between NYT’s articles and ChatGPT’s outputs. Key fact: NYT is the single biggest proprietary data set in Common Crawl used to train GPT. pic.twitter.com\/eHO97fstut<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Cecilia Ziniti (@CeciliaZin) December 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n