United States: OpenAI and Microsoft, are being sued by another US Center for Investigative Reporting for alleged copyright infringement.
In a “rebuke to artificial intelligence and its exploitative practices,” the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), the publisher of Mother Jones and Reveal, announced on Thursday that it had filed a lawsuit against the tech companies for allegedly copying its content without authorisation.
“OpenAI and Microsoft started vacuuming up our stories to make their product more powerful, but they never asked for permission or offered compensation, unlike other organisations that license our material,” Monika Bauerlein, CEO of the Center for Investigative Reporting, said in a statement.
“This free rider behaviour is not only unfair, it is a violation of copyright. The work of journalists, at CIR and everywhere, is valuable, and OpenAI and Microsoft know it,” Bauerlein added.
The action was filed in federal court in New York and asked the judge to force Microsoft and OpenAI to remove copyrighted content from their training datasets.
To answer questions from users, OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot uses a tonne of data that is collected from websites, including news sources.
The most recent case was filed in federal court in New Yor following similar claims made against the firms by news organisations such as The New York Times, The Intercept, New York Daily journalistic, Chicago Tribune, and Denver Post.
Prominent writers including George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and John Grisham have also filed lawsuits against OpenAI for allegedly utilising their works without their consent or payment.
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