OpenAI Recent content licensing deals with Vox and The Atlantic have The authors of these publications were worried.
As Ars Technica wrote on Friday (May 31), the deal allows artificial intelligence (AI) companies to use the work of the two publications to Train the model.
But some reporters are not so keen on the idea, and their unions issued statements of concern last week. For example, The News Guild said: Atlantic Reporters at the paper said the paper wrote a story a few days ago about how technology journalism projects fail all the time.
“The Atlantic staff Worth knowing That's why company executives believe this time will be different,” the union said.
Meanwhile, Vox editor-in-chief Brian Walsh wrote an article titled “This article is training data for OpenAI,” warning that the growth of AI chatbots and generative AI search products could lead to a sharp decline in search engine traffic to publishers, threatening the livelihoods of content creators and the very nature of the internet.
PYMNTS has reached out to OpenAI for comment but has not yet heard back.
OpenAI and its partners Microsoft already Facing legal action There have been outcry against authors and media companies, including The New York Times, for using creative and journalistic articles to train AI models.
And as PYMNTS writes, these ongoing AI-driven concerns culminated in a recent open letter published in Billboard by the Artists Rights Alliance (ARA), for Ethical and responsible use of AI Inside the Recording Industry Defending the rights of musicians and performers and Songwriter.
Last week, Jonathan Cantor, the Justice Department's top antitrust attorney, Fair compensation He said that for artists and creators, the only thing they can do at this point is monitor the situation.
As PYMNTS wrote, this is all happening In the midst of Tensions have been rising between artists and AI companies, with actress Scarlett Johansson recently accusing OpenAI of using a voice that resembles her for its new GPT-4o chatbot without her consent.
“This case highlights the ongoing conflict surrounding the use of AI-generated voices and images in film and television. and “Video games have been a contentious issue in labor negotiations within the entertainment industry,” PYMNTS wrote.
Meanwhile, as we noted here last week, OpenAI's recent announcement that it has formed a new safety committee has raised questions from some security experts.
“The board appears to be made up entirely of OpenAI employees or executives,” John Bambenek, president of cybersecurity firm Bambenek Consulting, told PYMNTS. Echo chamber effect “It prevents models from taking root that may miss risks posed by more sophisticated models.”
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