US news publishers sue Microsoft, OpenAI: All you need to know
news publishers on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against software firm Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI for copyright infringement in training their generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models using proprietary material. It comes months after The New York Times took the companies to court for similar reasons. ET explains the case and the trend globally.
Who are the plaintiffs this time?
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied Risk ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitThe newspapers involved in the suit are the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sun Sentinel in Florida, The Mercury News in California, The Denver Post, The Orange County Register in California and the Pioneer Press of Minnesota.
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These publications are owned by Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund.
What are their complaints?
In the suit, the news publishers have accused Microsoft and OpenAI of “purloining millions of the publishers’ copyrighted articles without permission and without payment” and using them to train large language models (LLM) that power chatbots such as ChatGPT and Copilot.
They also said that the GenAI products incorrectly attribute inaccurate information to them.
“The current GPT-4 LLM will output near-verbatim copies of significant portions of the publishers’ works when prompted
