On Friday, a group of Canadian news and media companies filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the creator of ChatGPT violated their copyright by using content from their sites to train large language models, thus unfairly enriching itself at the expense of others. The plaintiffs include the Toronto Star, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Globe and Mail and others.
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They argue that the content is “the result of an enormous investment of time, effort and expense by news companies and their journalists, editors and staff” and therefore cannot be used without proper permissions. The companies intend to receive monetary compensation for the use of their work and are seeking to have OpenAI ban similar actions in the future, TechCrunch writes.
“Instead of attempting to obtain information legally, OpenAI chose to blatantly appropriate the valuable intellectual property of news media companies and use it for its own purposes, including commercial ones, without consent or compensation,” the portal quotes the lawsuit filed with the courts.
Prosecutors say they “never received any compensation, including payment, from OpenAI in exchange for OpenAI’s use of their work.”
This new lawsuit was filed shortly after Columbia University’s Center for Digital Journalism published a study that found that “no publisher, regardless of their degree of affiliation with OpenAI, was spared the inaccurate representation of their content on ChatGPT.” .
The New York Times, New York Daily News, YouTube creators, and several bloggers previously filed similar lawsuits against OpenAI. At the same time, OpenAI has signed official licensing agreements with publishers such as The Associated Press, Axel Springer and Le Monde.
An OpenAI spokesperson said ChatGPT “works closely with news media outlets, including on displaying, attributing and linking their content in ChatGPT search, and offers them easy ways to opt out if they wish.” .
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