New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for training AI on its articles

• The New York Times is suing Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement.
• The New York Times alleges that ChatGPT and Copilot recite the outlet’s content verbatim, closely summarize it, and mimic its style.
• The New York Times is asking for billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages.

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Microsoft’s and OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs) have landed the two companies in some hot water. A new lawsuit — filed by The New York Times — alleges that the AI models that power Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT are guilty of copyright infringement.

Filed today, a lawsuit from The New York Times claims that Microsoft and OpenAI used “millions” of its articles without permission to train their LLMs. The publication also asserts that Microsoft’s and OpenAI’s chatbots “directly compete with Times content.”

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