US newspaper New York Times has sued OpenAI, the company that owns artificial intelligence ChatGPT, for copyright issues. On Wednesday (December 26), the newspaper filed this case in the federal court in Manhattan. They allege that training Chat GPT’s system violates copyright laws.
According to the news of the British media BBC , the New York Times demanded a hundred million dollars in compensation in the case. The BBC has sought comment from OpenAI and Microsoft on the case. But there was no response.
Last April, the New York Times sought an injunction from Microsoft and OpenAI over its copyrights, according to court filings. But it failed.
The lawsuit claims that millions of articles published by the New York Times were used without the media’s permission to make ChatGPT a crime. ChatGPT now competes with the New York Times as a trusted source of information.
The lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT would sometimes produce “verbal excerpts” from New York Times articles when asked about current events. However, the New York Times does not allow readers to read this information for free (subscription).
The way ChatGPT works, the complaint says, is that readers can get half of the New York Times without paying. This means, the New York Times is losing revenue from reader clicks on ads in addition to subscriptions.