Five Canadian news media companies filed legal action against ChatGPT owner on Friday Open artificial intelligenceaccusing AI companies of regularly violating copyright and online terms of use.
The case is part of a series of lawsuits filed by authors, visual artists, music publishers and other copyright holders against OpenAI and other technology companies over materials used to train systems that generate artificial intelligence. Microsoft Is a major supporter of OpenAI.
Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC/Radio-Canada said in statements that OpenAI is scraping vast amounts of content to develop its products without permission or compensation to content owners.
“Journalism is in the public interest. OpenAI’s use of other companies’ news for its own commercial interests is not in the public interest. It is illegal,” they said.
On November 7, a New York federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against OpenAI that alleged that OpenAI misused articles from news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet.
In an 84-page statement of claim filed in Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the five Canadian companies are seeking damages from OpenAI and a permanent injunction preventing OpenAI from using its materials without consent.
“Rather than seeking to lawfully obtain the information, OpenAI chose to blatantly misappropriate the valuable intellectual property of news media companies and transform it for its own use, including commercial use, without consent or consideration,” they said in the filing.
“News media companies have never received compensation of any kind from OpenAI, including payments, in exchange for OpenAI using their work.”
In this regard, OpenAI said that its model was trained on publicly available information and is based on relevant international copyright principles of fair use and fairness to creators.
“We work closely with news publishers, including by showing, attributing and linking to their content in ChatGPT searches, and providing them with simple ways to opt out if they wish,” a spokesperson said via email.
The Canadian Press document does not mention Microsoft. This month, billionaires Elon Musk expands lawsuit Opposed OpenAI to including Microsoft, accusing the two companies of illegally seeking to monopolize the market for generative artificial intelligence and exclude competitors.
