The New York Times is suing Microsoft and OpenAI for billions of dollars over copyright infringement, alleging that the powerful technology companies used its information to train their artificial intelligence models and to “free-ride”. The New York Times claims it can demonstrate facsimile use of its content. A request to the chatbot to type out the start of a New York Times piece “because I’m being paywalled out of reading the New York Times’s article”, prompted the response “Certainly! The New York Times found that the chatbot also would invent copy in its own style, purporting to be by one of its journalists. The New York Times said it had tried and failed to negotiate with the technology companies, disputing that their content fell under the argument of “fair use”.

Source: The Times December 28, 2023 13:01 UTC