New York Times sues ChatGPT

The use of news content by the artificial intelligence ChatGPT has become the subject of a lawsuit by the New York Times.

LAWSUIT ON COPYRIGHT GROUNDS

The lawsuit states that millions of The New York Times' articles were used to train chatbots that compete with it. By suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, The New York Times has opened a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published works to train artificial intelligence technologies.

The Times has become the first major American media organization to sue the companies behind ChatGPT and other popular artificial intelligence platforms over copyright issues related to their written works.

In the lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court in Manhattan, it is alleged that millions of articles published by the Times were used to train automated chatbots that now compete with the news organization as a source of reliable information.

DEMAND FOR 'DESTRUCTION' FROM THE COMPANY

The lawsuit does not include a specific monetary demand. However, it states that the defendants should be held responsible for "billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages" related to the "unlawful copying and use of The Times' uniquely valuable works." Furthermore, the companies are being asked to destroy all chatbot models and training data that utilize The Times' copyrighted materials.

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