Description: The New York Times alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of its articles without permission to train AI models, including ChatGPT. The lawsuit claims the companies scraped and reproduced copyrighted content without compensation, in turn undermining the Times’s business and competing with its journalism. Some AI outputs allegedly regurgitate Times articles verbatim. The lawsuit seeks damages and demands the destruction of AI models trained on its content.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI , Microsoft , ChatGPT , GPT-4 and Microsoft Bing Chat developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed The New York Times , Journalists , Journalism , Media organizations , publishers and Writers.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
995
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2023-12-27
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies.
Th…
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Wednesday over the tech companies' use of its copyrighted articles to train their artificial intelligence technology, joining a growing wave of opposition to the tech industry's using creative…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
