A group of Canadian news and media companies filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the ChatGPT maker of copyright infringement and unjust enrichment at its expense.
The companies behind the lawsuit, which include the Toronto Star, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Globe and Mail, are seeking monetary damages and a ban on further use of their work by OpenAI. I'm looking for it.
Media outlets said that OpenAI uses content collected from its websites to train large-scale language models that power ChatGPT. Its content “has been produced at a tremendous amount of time, effort, and cost on behalf of news media companies and their journalists, editors, and media outlets,” as well as their staff. ”
“Rather than seeking to lawfully obtain information, OpenAI brazenly misuses news media companies' valuable intellectual property and uses it for its own purposes, including commercial use, without consent or consideration,” the companies said in the lawsuit. “I have chosen to convert it into a.”
OpenAI also faces copyright lawsuits from authors including the New York Times, New York Daily News, YouTube creators, and comedian Sarah Silverman.
OpenAI has licensing agreements with publishers such as The Associated Press, Axel Springer, and Le Monde, but the companies behind the new lawsuit say they have received “including payments from OpenAI in exchange for OpenAI's use of the copyright.” I have never received any form of compensation.” It works. ”
An OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement that ChatGPT is used “by hundreds of millions of people around the world to improve their daily lives, inspire creativity, and solve tough problems,” and that its models ” “It's trained and evidence-based on publicly available data.” In fair use and related international copyright principles that are fair to creators and support innovation. ”
“We work closely with news publishers regarding visibility, attribution and linking to their content in ChatGPT searches, and provide an easy way to opt out if you wish,” the spokesperson said. Ta.
The new lawsuit follows a study by Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, which found that “no publisher, regardless of the extent of its partnership with OpenAI, has been spared from misrepresentation of content on ChatGPT.” It happened right after.