Eight US newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the Denver Postthey sued OpenAI and Microsoft for illegally using “millions of articles” with the intent to train and enhance the artificial intelligence used by ChatGpt and Copilot.
Also among the plaintiffs are the New York Daily News, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sun Sentinel of Florida, the San Jose Mercury News, the Orange County Register and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. They are all newspapers belonging to Alden Global Capital investment fund.
The eight newspapers did not ask for a sum in compensation. But they claim from OpenAI and Microsoft compensation for the content that the two companies allegedly used without asking permission.
The case
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“We have spent billions of dollars gathering information and publishing stories in our newspapers. And we cannot allow OpenAI and Microsoft to carry out big tech’s plan to steal our work to build their businesses at our expense,” he said Frank Pinethe managing editor who oversees the Alden Group’s newspapers.
Last December the New York Times sued OpenAI and its main investor, Microsoft, for copyright infringement. The popular American newspaper claims that the two tech companies have used numerous articles to train their AI – on which ChatGpt and Copilot are based – and to offer an alternative source of information to users. In effect, starting a competition with the newspaper from which they had unduly collected information.
The New York Times lawsuit has prompted OpenAI’s search in recent months millionaire deals with the main sources of information. The company led by Sam Altman has reached an agreement, so far, with the Associated Press, El País and Le Monde to train ChatGpt with their articles.
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Recently also the Financial Times has decided to license its content to OpenAI. And with the help of the San Francisco company will develop new tools equipped with AI.
ChatGpt users, therefore, will see summaries, quotes and links from the FT in the chatbot’s responses regarding the topics covered by the newspaper. Any content generated with information from the FT will be attributed upon publication.
OpenAI will also be committed to developing new tools equipped with AI for the British newspaper.
The Financial Times already uses OpenAI’s services: it is a customer of ChatGPT Enterprisethe subscription dedicated to companies.
Last month, also, the Financial Times launched an internal search engine – still in testing phase – based on generative AI by Anthropic, the company that develops artificial intelligence founded by two Italian-American brothers: Dario and Daniela Amodei.
The new service is called “Ask FT” and allows subscribers to extract information from articles in the newspaper’s archive. Research in this case is facilitated by the possibility of asking questions using natural language.
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