Three more publishers have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI because its chatbot violates copyright.
According to TechSpot, OpenAI continues to be sued for allegedly illegally using a copyrighted article to train ChatGPT. The New York Times joined a similar lawsuit against OpenAI last December, and now digital publishers The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet are launching their copyright infringement lawsuits against This Microsoft-backed company.
Two new lawsuits, filed jointly by Raw Story and AlterNet, mirror the New York Times ‘ argument against OpenAI that the company used copyrighted material to train ChatGPT. The lawsuits say the chatbot created journalistic works that were copied verbatim or in part without providing information about the author, title, copyright, or terms of use contained in those works
Raw Story and AlterNet argue that OpenAI and Microsoft know ChatGPT will be less popular and generate less revenue if people believe the chatbot’s responses violate third-party copyrights.
The lawsuits allege that OpenAI remained aware of their potential copyright infringement, based on the fact that the company provided a system to website owners that prevented their content from being crawled by web crawlers. of OpenAI replicated. Attorneys representing the companies believe that the WebText, WebText2, and Common Crawl data sets contain the plaintiffs’ content.
Only The Intercept’s lawsuit puts Microsoft on the list of defendants. Raw Story and AlterNet did not mention the Windows maker because their partnership with MSN helped fund their investigative reporting.
The companies are seeking damages of at least $2,500 for each violation. They also want OpenAI to remove all copyrighted articles from its training dataset.
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December for using millions of their articles to train OpenAI’s system without permission or compensation. OpenAI recently accused this newspaper of “hiring” someone to “hack” ChatGPT to create fake evidence