On April 30, local time, several news organizations including the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune sued Microsoft and OpenAI in a New York federal court, accusing them of abusing the work of journalists to train their generative artificial intelligence.
The New York Daily News and seven other newspapers sued Microsoft and OpenAI on Tuesday, claiming that the two tech giants illegally obtained millions of copyrighted articles to create their cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence products, including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot. Several news organizations, including the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune, also published reports on their lawsuits against Microsoft and OpenAI on the front page of their news pages.
The lawsuit claims that the news organizations' information was plagiarized. Although news organizations spend billions of dollars sending real people to real places to report real events in the real world, the two technology companies are stealing their reports for free to create "news products." (Securities Times)