A group of Canadian news and media companies filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, alleging that the makers of ChatGPT infringed on their copyrights and unfairly profited at their expense.
Those behind the lawsuit include the Toronto Star, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Globe and Mail and other companies seeking monetary damages and seeking to prevent OpenAI from further using their work. Included.
The news companies said OpenAI used content scraped from websites to train large-scale language models that power ChatGPT. This content belongs to “news media companies and their journalists, editors, and employees.”
“Rather than seek to obtain information legally, OpenAI chose to brazenly steal valuable intellectual property from news media companies and convert it for its own use, including commercial use, without consent or consideration,” the companies wrote in the lawsuit.
OpenAI is also facing copyright lawsuits from the New York Times, New York Daily News, and authors including YouTube creator and comedian Sarah Silverman.
OpenAI has signed licensing agreements with publishers such as Associated Press, Axel Springer and Le Monde, but the company filing the new lawsuit claims it has “never received any form of compensation from OpenAI, including payments for use of its products.” doesn’t exist. factory.”
An OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement that ChatGPT is used by “hundreds of millions of people around the world to improve their daily lives, inspire creativity, and solve difficult problems” and that its models are “trained on publicly available data.” Yes. We adhere to fair use and relevant international copyright principles that are fair to creators and support innovation.”
“We work closely with news publishers to include content visibility, attribution and links in ChatGPT searches, and provide them with an easy way to opt out if they wish,” a spokesperson said.
This new lawsuit comes shortly after Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism published research showing that “some publishers, regardless of their degree of affiliation with OpenAI, have not spared inaccurate representations of their content on ChatGPT.”
