OpenAI is being sued for copyright infringement by various news sites
OpenAI, which has been sued by the New York Times for plagiarizing its generative AI ChatGPT article, has now been hit with copyright infringement lawsuits from internet media outlets The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet.
Digital Media Outlets Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement - The New York Times
The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet sue OpenAI and Microsoft - The Verge
OpenAI sued by digital news outlets The Intercept, AlterNet, Raw Story | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2024/02/28/openai-lawsuit-digital-media-outlets-intercept-raw-story-alternet/
In 2023, The New York Times, the third largest newspaper in the United States by circulation, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, and Microsoft, which develops Copilot, an AI service that uses ChatGPT's language model.
Major daily newspaper New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement - GIGAZINE
In addition, on February 28, 2024, Raw Story, Alternet, and The Intercept filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement. The Intercept and the other two lawsuits were filed separately in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, but are handled by the same law firm, Loevy & Loevy.
The three plaintiffs allege that OpenAI used copyrighted material from copyright holders to train ChatGPT without properly citing or crediting the articles, and are seeking damages of at least $2,500 per violation and the removal of the articles from the training set.
The Intercept is also suing Microsoft at the same time as OpenAI, but has removed Microsoft as a defendant from Raw Story and Alternet because they have news deals with the company.
(PDF file) In its complaint , The Intercept accuses ChatGPT of providing users with responses that reproduced copyrighted journalistic works verbatim, or nearly verbatim, without providing any information about the author, title, copyright, or terms of use of those works.
Raw Story and Alternet also stated in their complaint that both OpenAI and Microsoft had reason to know that ChatGPT's popularity would decline and revenues would decrease if users believed that ChatGPT's answers infringed third-party copyrights or were concerned about further distribution of ChatGPT's answers . Both Microsoft and OpenAI offer legal compensation services to subscribed users in the event they are sued for copyright infringement.
The New York Times reached out to OpenAI and Microsoft for comment, but neither company responded. Meanwhile, John Byrne, founder and CEO of Raw Story, which owns AlterNet, told media, 'It's time for news organizations to fight back against Big Tech's ongoing attempts to ride high on other people's coattails.'
News organizations aren't the only ones suing generative AI for copyright infringement. Three American authors have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta, and a class action lawsuit has been filed against three AI companies behind the image-generating AIs Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
Class action lawsuit filed against image generation AI 'Stable Diffusion' and 'Midjourney' - GIGAZINE
Although no lawsuit has been filed, the Recording Industry Association of America has asked authorities to designate Voicify AI, which offers an AI voice model that reproduces human singing voices, as a copyright infringing site.
The Recording Industry Association of America requests that AI voice cloning services be recognized as copyright infringement sites - GIGAZINE
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