OpenAI sued by Canada's biggest media outlets
Source: The Verge
A host of Canadian media companies filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, alleging “inappropriate and illegal” use of their journalism to power the company’s GPT model, Reuters reports. It’s the latest salvo fired by the media in its fight against AI companies that have scraped large swaths of the open web to train their large-language models.
The suit was filed by several leading Canadian media companies, including the owners of the National Post and Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada. The group alleges that OpenAI infringed on its copyrights when training its models, like ChatGPT, without seeking permission or offering compensation.
“OpenAI’s public statements that it is somehow fair or in the public interest for them to use other companies’ intellectual property for their own commercial gain is wrong,” National Post owner Postmedia said in a statement. “Journalism is in the public interest. OpenAI using other companies’ journalism for their own commercial gain is not. It’s illegal.”
The group is seeking damages, and an injunction against OpenAI from using the companies’ news articles to train its AI models in the future. According to The Guardian, the plaintiffs want up to C$20,000 for each article used by OpenAI, which could add up to billions of dollars if they win their lawsuit. OpenAI has relied on an interpretation of “fair use,” which allows the unlicensed use of copyrighted material under certain circumstances, in its response to these various lawsuits.
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