New York Times-led newspapers ask US court to sanction OpenAI in a copyright lawsuit
Newspapers led by The New York Times are seeking sanctions against OpenAI for allegedly misleading the court regarding its ability to search datasets.Summary
A group of newspapers, including The New York Times and the New York Daily News, has filed a motion in a Manhattan federal court asking for sanctions against OpenAI. The plaintiffs allege that OpenAI misled the court by falsely claiming it lacked the technical capability to search its large language models and datasets for copyrighted news content used during training. Furthermore, the publishers claim that OpenAI has deleted or made unsearchable billions of ChatGPT conversations, potentially destroying evidence relevant to the ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit.
The lawsuit, originally filed in 2023, accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of using millions of news articles without permission to train AI models. The plaintiffs argue that OpenAI's conduct has delayed the discovery process and prevented them from understanding the full extent of how their content is scraped and used. While OpenAI has denied these allegations, claiming the lawsuits are an invasion of privacy, the newspapers maintain that OpenAI's previous statements to the court were contradicted by testimony from an OpenAI employee who confirmed that searches for copyrighted content had indeed been performed.
This legal battle is part of a broader wave of litigation involving authors, publishers, and artists suing AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Platforms over the unauthorized use of copyrighted material for training large-scale models.
(Source：Social Samosa)