The lawsuit also highlights that Microsoft invested $13 billion in OpenAI between 2019 and 2023, and that the company is currently valued at $80 billion. This follows a similar lawsuit recently filed by The New York Times against the two companies. In response to the lawsuits, Microsoft and OpenAI have acknowledged that those whose copyrighted work was used should be compensated.
Key takeaways:
- Microsoft and OpenAI are facing a class action lawsuit from two journalists who claim their copyrighted work was used to train the AI program ChatGPT without compensation.
- The lawsuit was filed in federal court in New York, with the plaintiffs alleging that OpenAI has kept secret the materials it used to train its language learning models.
- Microsoft invested a total of $13 billion in OpenAI between 2019 and 2023, with the company currently valued at $80 billion.
- The New York Times has also filed a similar lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing the companies of using its copyrighted journalism content to build ChatGPT and profiting off it without compensation.