OpenAI is sued again for copying and duplicating news materials
Three American digital publications, The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet, have filed two class action lawsuits against OpenAI. The plaintiffs accuse the tech firm of massively copying copyrighted journalistic materials to train the ChatGPT chatbot without permission or compensation.
What is known
The Intercept filed one lawsuit, and since Raw Story and AlterNet are owned by the same organization, it filed a second. Both cases are being handled by the same law firm, Loevy & Loevy.
The Intercept also filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, which supports OpenAI and uses the company’s technology.
According to the lawsuits, the defendants violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by removing information about the authors and sources of the copied texts. This has allowed companies to create a chatbot that does not respect the media’s intellectual property rights.
The plaintiffs’ lawyers claim that OpenAI and Microsoft used at least three publicly available text datasets, which included thousands of articles from their clients, to train ChatGPT. According to them, the chatbot is capable of generating content similar to these articles.
Journalistic publications are demanding a court ban on the use of their materials for AI training, as well as compensation for damages.
