OpenAI is reportedly facing a potential lawsuit from The New York Times for an intellectual property debate over alleged copyright violations. According to the claims by the news outlet, OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, is using the Times' content to train its chatbot.
NYT spent months negotiating with OpenAI to establish a licencing agreement allowing the company to incorporate the paper's stories into its AI tools. However, the discussions turned bitter when the news organisation expressed fear that ChatGPT would replace journalists, making it a direct rival.
OpenAI could become a popular search engine for readers by providing content based on original reporting, driving people away from news outlets, and directing them to the AI tool instead.
In response to this possibility, the Times is reportedly considering legal action.
In its allegations, the news outlet said that ChatGPT has already used its data to generate paragraphs of information without the news outlet's permission.
It remains unclear whether OpenAI has broken any copyright laws. A case like this would put the Times venturing into uncharted waters on a number of fronts. For example, OpenAI could be ordered to remove the Times' data from its training model, which is likely impossible without retraining ChatGPT on a new dataset—a very expensive process.
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