Owns 8 newspapers alden global capital's media news group Reportedly suing microsoft and OpenAIa tech company claims to have used newspaper content to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Newspapers include: new york daily news and chicago tribunefiled the lawsuit in New York federal court on Tuesday (April 30), Reuters report Tuesday.
The report claims that both tech companies copied millions of articles to train Microsoft's Copilot and OpenAI's ChatGPT, and that the AI systems also reproduced the newspaper's copyrighted content. , added that ChatGPT was “hallucinating” articles and falsely attributing them to newspapers.
According to reports, a lawyer for the Media News publication told Reuters that the defendants “think they can get away with taking the content” without payment or permission.
A Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment on the report when contacted by PYMNTS.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to PYMNTS' request for comment.
An OpenAI spokesperson reportedly told Reuters that the company “pays close attention to our products and design processes to support news organizations.”
frank pineEditor-in-Chief of MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing; Said The New York Daily News reported that newspapers cannot allow OpenAI and Microsoft to “build their own businesses at our expense.”
“OpenAI and Microsoft's misuse of news content undermines the news business model,” Pine said, according to the report. “These companies are building AI products that are clearly aimed at replacing news publishers by reusing our news content and delivering it to their users.”
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023, slamming both companies. Copyright infringement It claimed that it used that content without permission to develop ChatGPT.
OpenAI signs agreements with other publishers; content Train your chatbot.
For example, in December, the company and Axel Springer announced a licensing agreement that would provide summaries of Springer's content from Politico, Business Insider, and Bild in response to questions submitted to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
In a separate deal, OpenAI and Associated Press (AP) reached an agreement in July in which OpenAI would license portions of its newswire archives, while AP would leverage the AI company's technology and product expertise. did.
