According to Cointelegraph, OpenAI and Microsoft have been hit with another copyright infringement lawsuit. Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage., non-fiction authors sued the two companies. It is believed that the organisations were accused of stealing their copyrighted works to help build their artificial intelligence (AI) system.
Sources revealed that the lawsuit was filed on January 5, 2024, in a Manhattan federal court. It is belived it came a week after The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI in a similar copyright infringement complaint. The lawsuit is expected to allege the companies for using newspaper’s content to train AI chatbots.
“We respect the rights of content creators and owners and are committed to working with them to ensure they benefit from AI technology and new revenue models,” as per insights from the lawsuit.
The suit is expected to mention that OpenAI trained ChatGPT using data collected from social media comments, blog posts, Wikipedia articles and family recipes without the consent of the respective users, Cointelegraph concluded.
(With insghts from Cointelegraph)
