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A group of newspapersamong them New York Daily News And Chicago Tribune, On Tuesday they filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI. before federal court in New York,

US newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement in AI training

A group of newspapersamong them New York Daily News And Chicago Tribune, On Tuesday they filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI. before federal court in New York, accusing them of abusing the work of journalists to train your generative AI systems.

Eight newspapers owned by a hedge fund Alden Global Capital of MediaNews Groupthe lawsuit states that the companies They illegally copied millions of their articles. for training on artificial intelligence products, including Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

the lawsuit follows similar lawsuits against Microsoft and OpenAIwhich received billions of dollars from Microsoft provided The newspaper “New York Times And the media Interception, raw story And AlterNet.

An OpenAI spokesperson said Tuesday that the company “Our products and design process require great care to support news organizations.”. A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment on the complaint.

Newspaper cases are among Several potential landmark lawsuits filed by copyright holders against tech companies for data used to train their generative AI systems.

Publications lawyer MEDIANewsStephen Lieberman stated Reuters that OpenAI owes its stunning success to the work of others. The defendants know that they will have to pay for computers, chips and employee salaries, but “They believe they will somehow be able to take the content” without permission or payment, he said.

According to the lawsuit, Microsoft and OpenAI systems reproduce copyrighted content from newspapers “verbatim” on demand..

According to the lawsuit, ChatGPT also “hallucinates” articles attributed to newspapers that damage their reputation.like a fake article from Denver Post in which tobacco was promoted as a remedy for asthma and was a false recommendation by Chicago Tribune about a crib that was taken off the market after it was linked to the deaths of children.

The plaintiffs also include newspapers Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register and Twin Cities Pioneer Press. All of them They are asking the court for unspecified damages. and an order preventing any further violations.

Reuters

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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