OpenAI is currently facing significant lawsuits from famous authors and the New York Times, who accuse the company of "massive copyright infringement, commercial exploitation and misappropriation" of their work. The company maintains that copyright law does not prohibit the use of copyrighted materials for training AI models.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company valued at $80 billion, has admitted to the British Parliament that it uses human-created copyrighted work for free to create its content-generating product, ChatGPT.
- The company's remarks were submitted to a House of Lords subcommittee that is considering changes to AI and copyright law, following backlash from human writers and creators.
- OpenAI argues that it would be impossible to train leading AI models without using copyrighted materials and believes that copyright law does not forbid training.
- The company is facing significant lawsuits from collectives of famous authors and the New York Times, who accuse OpenAI and Microsoft of 'massive copyright infringement, commercial exploitation and misappropriation' of their work.