OpenAI and Microsoft face a new lawsuit from CIR
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OpenAI and Microsoft are facing a new lawsuit from the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). The CIR says that OpenAI has used its published content from Mother Jones and Reveal websites to train earlier versions of ChatGPT. Also read: OpenAI scraps ChatGPT voice after Scarlett Johansson controversy The CIR, the plaintiff says that OpenAI used its content without permission or a promise of compensation. CIR, founded in 1977, operates the nonprofit American magazine Mother Jones and Reveal podcast. CIR sues OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) filed the lawsuit in federal court in New York on Thursday. The nonprofit organization accused OpenAI and Microsoft of using their content without permission or compensation. The CIR says OpenAI has violated copyright laws by using its content to train ChatGPT. The CEO of CIR Monika Bauerlein said, “This free rider behavior is not only unfair, it is a violation of copyright. The work of journalists, at CIR and everywhere, is valuable, and OpenAI and Microsoft know it.” 🚨[AI copyright lawsuit] The Center for Investigative Reporting (behind @MotherJones & @reveal) sues OpenAI & Microsoft for copyright infringement. Quotes: “Defendants copied, used, abridged, and displayed CIR’s valuable content without CIR’s permission or authorization, and… pic.twitter.com/SeZ0VtDOMY — Luiza Jarovsky (@LuizaJarovsky) June 29, 2024 In the official complaint, the plaintiff hired a data scientist to analyze the OpenWebText database. OpenWebText is an approximation of WebText, which is a corpus of scraped web pages created by OpenAI. The data scientist found that the dataset contains 17,434 URLs from Mother Jones and 415 from Reveal. OpenWebText and WebText have slightly different numbers of Mother Jones articles because the scraping process happened on different days. The plaintiff said in the official complaint, “When they populated their training sets with works of journalism, Defendants had a choice: to…
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