NY Times sues OpenAI for using articles to train AI

Image source , Getty Images< /figure>By Tom GerkenTechnology Reporter

The US news agency New York Times is suing OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT, for claiming its copyright had been violated to train the system.

The lawsuit, which also names Microsoft as a defendant, claims the companies should be held liable for "billions of dollars" in damages .

ChatGPT and other large language models (LLM) “learn” by analyzing a massive amount of data often obtained online.

< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">The BBC has approached OpenAI and Microsoft for comment.

The lawsuit claims that "millions" of articles published by the New York Times were used without its permission to make ChatGPT smarter, and claims the tool now competes with the newspaper as a trusted news source.

He alleges that when asked about current events, ChatGPT sometimes generates "textual excerpts" from the New York Times. articles, which cannot be accessed without paying a subscription.

According to the lawsuit, this means readers can get New York Times content without paying - c 'i.e. loses subscription revenue as well as ad clicks from people visiting the website.