OpenAI is also facing legal action from Elon Musk, its co-founder, who alleges anticompetitive behavior and seeks to prevent OpenAI from shifting to a for-profit model. Altman revealed that OpenAI has told investors they would lose informational rights on OpenAI’s product roadmap if they invest in competitors.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging unauthorized use of its written content to train OpenAI’s AI models.
- The New York Times has invested more than $1 million in its legal fight with OpenAI and is seeking billions in damages and the destruction of any chatbot models and training data that includes the publisher’s copyrighted material.
- Altman suggested a new payment model for agreements between AI firms and publishers, proposing the idea of making “micropayments” to creators for the use of their likeness and style in AI content generation.
- OpenAI is also facing legal action from Elon Musk, who alleges anticompetitive behavior and is seeking to prevent OpenAI from shifting to a for-profit model.