Five Canadian news media companies filed legal action Friday against ChatGPT owner OpenAI, accusing the artificial-intelligence company of regularly violating copyrights and online terms of use.
The case is part of a wave of lawsuits against OpenAI and other tech companies by authors, visual artists, music publishers and other copyright owners over data used to train generative AI systems. Microsoft is a major supporter of OpenAI.
In a statement, Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC/Radio-Canada said that OpenAI is destroying large amounts of content to develop its products without obtaining permission or compensating content owners. doing.
He said, “Journalism is in the public interest. OpenAI is not using other companies’ journalism for its own commercial gain. This is illegal.”
A New York federal judge on November 7 dismissed a lawsuit against OpenAI that claimed it misused articles from news outlets Raw Story and Alternate.
In an 84-page statement of claim filed in the Supreme Court of Ontario, the five Canadian companies seek damages from OpenAI and a permanent injunction to stop it from using their content without consent.
“Instead of obtaining the information legally, OpenAI decided to shamelessly misuse the valuable intellectual property of news media companies and convert it for its own use, including commercial use, without consent or consideration,” he said in the filing. Have done.”
“News media companies have never received any consideration, including payment, from OpenAI in exchange for OpenAI’s use of their works.”
In response, OpenAI said that its models were trained on publicly available data, fair use and related international copyright principles that were fair to creators.
“We collaborate closely with news publishers on the display of their content in ChatGPAT search, including attribution and links, and provide them with easy ways to opt out,” a spokesperson said via email.
Microsoft was not mentioned in the Canadian news companies’ document. This month, billionaire Elon Musk expanded a lawsuit against OpenAI to include Microsoft, alleging that both companies illegally tried to monopolize the market for generative AI and sideline competitors.
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