Chatbots developed with artificial intelligence and major language modelsrequires training large amounts of data. Because researchers don’t have time to write millions of pages of text and provide information on each topic, they use content they find on the Internet.

The fact that productive minds use source material produced by humans to create something naturally leads to discussions about copyright. Finally The New York TimesTo prevent the use of articles in artificial intelligence education OpenAI And Microsoft took it to court.

Press organizations have problems with artificial intelligence

The New York Times’ claim in its court filing is that OpenAI and Microsoft billions of dollars It happened that he stole his journalistic work. The paper even showed that artificial intelligence bots literally used NYT material in some cases. In fact, NYT had been negotiating with both companies since April, but when no results were achieved, they filed in federal court.

Traditional media is already changing with the transition to digital platforms. He had suffered a serious blow. Although some newspapers managed to carve a niche for themselves in the digital market, they again began to feel threatened by the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. Essentially, there has to be traffic for the ad revenue that keeps digital news platforms afloat. Artificial intelligence tools separate this traffic from the original source. Therefore income from news portals is falling.

OpenAI: “We are disappointed.”

Ian B. Crosby, NYT representative, “These bots are compatible with the content used in their training. is competing.” He made a statement. A press spokesperson from OpenAI reported this in conversations with the New York Times It was very productive and they were both surprised and angry that the newspaper went to court. they were disappointed told. The spokesperson said he believes they can reach a mutually beneficial agreement with the newspaper, as it does with many other publishers, and that the company will continue to respect the rights of content producers and create new revenue streams for them.

Microsoft has not yet made a statement on the matter. Not just Microsoft and OpenAI, but virtually every productive AI developer faces such lawsuits. copyright regulations We will see together how it will respond to artificial intelligence.