{"id":4826,"date":"2024-01-16T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2024-01-16T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:48:15","slug":"new-york-times-sues-openai-gpt-models-in-major-copyright-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/new-york-times-sues-openai-gpt-models-in-major-copyright-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Sues OpenAI: GPT Models in Major Copyright Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>TLDR<\/strong>: New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for billions over GPT models&#8217; alleged copyright infringement of news articles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article is a summary of a You Tube video &#8220;The End of GPT-4? New York Times and OpenAI Lawsuit&#8221; by Wes Roth<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UmKlzDmWCKw?si=i_-OZOJcFx9xY1v9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>New York Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI:<\/strong> The New York Times is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, targeting not just OpenAI but also associated companies like Microsoft.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Massive Compensation Demands:<\/strong> The lawsuit involves demands for potentially billions of dollars and the deletion of models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 trained on New York Times data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Precedents in AI Copyright Lawsuits:<\/strong> There have been similar lawsuits in the past against AI models by various entities, often yielding poor results for the plaintiffs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Judicial Perspective on AI and Copyright:<\/strong> U.S. courts have generally dismissed cases that attack the inputs of AI models (i.e., the training data), focusing instead on the output as potential copyright infringement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Significance of Output in Copyright Infringement:<\/strong> The main issue in such lawsuits is whether the AI&#8217;s output infringes on someone&#8217;s copyright, not necessarily the learning process or the data used.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legal Precedents Favoring AI:<\/strong> Courts have not recognized AI models as infringing derivative works simply based on their training on copyrighted materials.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Specifics of the New York Times&#8217; Claims:<\/strong> The lawsuit claims OpenAI&#8217;s tools, using Microsoft Bing\u2019s search index, generate responses with verbatim excerpts and detailed summaries of Times articles, affecting the newspaper&#8217;s relationship with its readers and causing financial harm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Examples of Alleged Infringement by OpenAI:<\/strong> The New York Times has provided examples where GPT models reproduced substantial parts of their articles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>OpenAI&#8217;s Response to Requests for Copyrighted Material:<\/strong> There are differences in how different versions of GPT models respond to requests for copyrighted text, with newer models linking to articles or refusing to provide verbatim excerpts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Questions About the Validity of the Lawsuit&#8217;s Claims:<\/strong> The case might hinge on whether the AI models actually contain copies of copyrighted material and how they reproduce such content.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for billions over GPT models&#8217; alleged copyright infringement of news articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-40","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}