New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI for Copyright Infringement
- Lawsuit says millions of Times articles trained AI tools
- Copyright case comes as OpenAI seeks $100 billion valuation
OpenAI has faced criticism for scraping text widely from the web to train its chatbots, and this is the first lawsuit by a media organization challenging the practice.
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The New York Times Co. sued Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI Inc. for using its content to help develop artificial intelligence services, in a sign of the increasingly fraught relationship between the media and a technology that could upend the news industry.
The technology firms relied on millions of copyrighted articles to train chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI features, allegedly causing billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages, according to a lawsuit filed in New York on Wednesday. The Times didn’t specify its monetary demands.