The complaint also states that the chatbots often surfaced entire articles behind subscription paywalls, reducing the need for readers to pay for subscriptions and depriving the publishers of revenue from subscriptions and content licensing. The lawsuit adds to the ongoing debate over the use of data to power generative A.I., with many tech companies allegedly ignoring policies and considering bypassing copyright law to obtain data for training chatbots.
Key takeaways:
- Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of illegally using news articles to power their A.I. chatbots.
- The publications allege that the tech companies have used millions of copyrighted articles without permission to train and feed their generative A.I. products, including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.
- The lawsuit claims that the chatbots often surfaced the entire text of articles behind subscription paywalls for users and did not prominently link back to the source, reducing the need for readers to pay subscriptions and depriving the publishers of revenue.
- The lawsuit adds to a fight over the use of data to power generative A.I., with numerous tech companies ignoring policies and debating skirting copyright law to obtain as much data as possible to train chatbots.