Defend OpenAI and Microsoft with a Case Study on Copyright Violation in News Articles from Alden Global Capital and the New York Daily News

More news organizations, including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and four others, are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement.

The publications are owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital and they claim that Microsoft trained on their articles without permission. The excerpts of conversations with both ChatGPTA and Copilot were included in the evidence as proof that their training did contain thetexts of certain articles.

The Copilot can reproduce entire news articles a day or two after they’ve been posted, without a prominent hyperlink back to the original article. The companies claim that chatbots can attribute false facts to publications.

According to the publications, companies that use copyrighted material for their AI models “must obtain the publishers’ consent to use their content and pay fair value for such use.”

In addition, according to the suit, ChatGPT at times falsely attributes reporting to the newspapers in the answers it generates, tarnishing the reputation of the news outlets.

The suit states that the chatbot fabricated a research showing that smoking can be a cure for asthma, and that it was asked if smoking cures asthma. That assertion is obviously false, and the paper never published such research.

“This issue is not simply a business problem for a small group of newspapers or the newspaper industry in general,” lawyers for the newspapers wrote in the suit. It is a key issue for civil life.

Eight newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement: A high-stakes court battle between the tech giants and news publishers

“We see immense potential for artificial intelligence to deepen publishers’ relationships with readers and enhance the news experience,” said a representative for OpenAI.

Attorneys for the newspapers are asking for an excessive amount of money and a stop to the practice of using their copyrighted work.

The suit is asking for the destruction of any models that use works published by the newspapers, something experts have said would be hard to do without completely rebuilding its models.

Gary Marcus, a professor of psychology at New York University and the author of the book “Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can,” said it would take a billion or even billions of dollars to reprogram an artificial intelligence model. Yes. That AI Work For Us.

Even if there is a master list of all the URLs that had to be taken down, there is no guarantees that you will not see a version of a copyrighted story in a post.

The legal challenges are set to be a high-stakes court battle between one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies and news publishers that experts say is unresolved and murky.

Yet OpenAI has long claimed that its so-called “large language models,” hoover up vast amounts of data from all corners of the internet under what is known as the “fair use” doctrine.

If certain criteria are met, a copyrighted work can be used without permission, like if the work does not compete with the original, or if it is substantially changed.

Source: Eight newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement

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Yet legal scholars have said it is far from certain that the law is on the on the side of AI companies, and it will likely take years of court battles and a long appeals process to determine whether leading technology firms like OpenAI have violated the law or not.

Other publishers are taking a different path with the company. The Financial Times has a licensing agreement with Openai, which pays for the use of copyrighted material.