OpenAI is also facing similar lawsuits from The New York Times, New York Daily News, YouTube creators, and authors like Sarah Silverman. Despite having licensing agreements with publishers like The Associated Press, Axel Springer, and Le Monde, the Canadian companies claim they have not received any compensation from OpenAI. The lawsuit follows a study by Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, which found that no publisher was spared inaccurate representations of its content in ChatGPT.
Key takeaways:
- A group of Canadian news and media companies, including the Toronto Star, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Globe and Mail, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing it of copyright infringement and unjust enrichment.
- The companies claim that OpenAI has used content from their websites to train its language models, ChatGPT, without their consent or any form of payment.
- OpenAI is also facing similar copyright lawsuits from The New York Times, New York Daily News, YouTube creators, and authors including comedian Sarah Silverman.
- OpenAI has defended its actions, stating that its models are trained on publicly available data, grounded in fair use and related international copyright principles, and that it collaborates closely with news publishers, offering them easy ways to opt-out.