2024-04-30 18:04:09
Eight American newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, filed a complaint Tuesday against OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, and Microsoft, its main investor, accusing the companies of having violated their copyrights to create the technology used in the assistants artificial intelligence (AI).
The plaintiffs – New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Sun Sentinel of Florida, San Jose Mercury News, Denver Post, Orange County Register and St. Paul Pioneer Press – are owned by Alden Global Capital, a Florida-based hedge fund that created the second largest American press group behind Gannett, owner of USA Today.
According to their lawyers, “this trial will demonstrate that the defendants must both obtain the consent of publishers to use their content and compensate them fairly for this use.”
Many authors, artists and information sites accuse OpenAI and its rivals of copyright infringement in the race for generative AI (production of texts, images, etc., upon simple request in everyday language), which requires mountains of data. At the end of December, the New York Times launched lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft.
Asked by AFP on Tuesday, OpenAI did not comment on the newspapers’ allegations, but said it “takes great care” in its products and its process of training generative AI models “to support research organizations. press”.
The Californian start-up also highlighted “constructive partnerships and conversations with numerous media outlets around the world to explore opportunities, discuss concerns and provide solutions”.
She refers to content licensing agreements with media outlets — including the AP press agency, the German group Axel Springer, the French daily Le Monde and the Spanish conglomerate Prisa Media, and since Monday, the British daily Financial Times.
The start-up also accused the American daily of having “hacked” ChatGPT, to produce “highly abnormal results”.
Microsoft declined to comment on the complaints filed.
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