Sam Altman – Credit Chen Galili
OpenAI, Sam Altman’s high-tech firm that offers the ChatGPT artificial intelligence platform, was hit by even more lawsuits over copyright infringement as The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet all filed suit. The new suits come after the New York Times filed a similar lawsuit last year and Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, David Baldacci, Sylvia Day, Jonathan Franzen and more also filed copyright suits against the company.
The Intercept and the other publications now suing, alleging that OpenAI used “verbatim or nearly verbatim copyright-protected works of journalism without providing author, title, copyright or terms of use information contained in those works.”
The lawsuits also assert that OpenAI knew that it would need to use their content saying the company “had reason to know that ChatGPT would be less popular and generate less revenue if users believed that ChatGPT responses violated third-party copyrights.”
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Meanwhile, OpenAI is trying to have at least the New York Times suit tossed.
“The allegations in the Times’s complaint do not meet its famously rigorous journalistic standards. The truth, which will come out in the course of this case, is that the Times paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products,” said OpenAI in a court filing.
“The Times cannot prevent AI models from acquiring knowledge about facts, any more than another news organization can prevent the Times itself from re-reporting stories it had no role in investigating,” said OpenAI. “OpenAI and the other defendants in these lawsuits will ultimately prevail because no one — not even The New York Times — gets to monopolize facts or the rules of language.”
A spokesperson for the New York Times responded, “What OpenAI bizarrely mischaracterizes as ‘hacking’ is simply using OpenAI’s products to look for evidence that they stole and reproduced The Times’s copyrighted work.”
Ian B. Crosby, a partner at Susman Godfrey and the lead counsel for The Times, said in a statement OpenAI has not even bothered to dispute a main point on the paper’s lawsuit that alleges the company “copied millions of The Times’s works to build and power its commercial products without our permission.”
ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot that was launched by OpenAI in November 2022. Chatbot.com explains that a chatbot is a software that simulates human-like conversations with users via chat. Its key task is to answer user questions with instant messages.
