NYT Says OpenAI Committed 'Theft of Unprecedented Proportions' Using News Articles to Train AI
The newspaper says OpenAI used copyrighted material without permission and seeks damages for each allegedly stolen article.
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A document published on Thursday at the trial brought by the daily against OpenAI and Microsoft reveals internal messages evoking "the greatest theft of work in the history of humanity" and an "existential threat" to publishersL-Unauthorized use of millions of articles from the New York Times to develop models of artificial intelligence (AI) from OpenAI appeared to be a "surprising flight of unprecedented proportions," according to an internal m…
New York Times alleges Microsoft, OpenAI knew using news content was theft
The document claims Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hect, called it "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions" and possibly the "largest theft of labor in human history."
January 2023. A Microsoft executive named Brent Hecht writes an internal memo and doesn't go around. He calls the practice of feeding artificial intelligences with other people's newspaper articles "an amazing theft of unprecedented proportions" and even "the greatest theft of other people's work in the history of humanity." It is not ... Continue reading "They reveal emails where Microsoft and OpenAI recognize that their AI made "the greatest t…
OpenAI committed an "amazing theft of unprecedented proportions" by using millions of journalistic articles to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models, claimed the New York Times in a judicial document made public this Thursday. California's startup would have extracted content from more than 10 million articles, almost a third of them from the New York Times itself.
In December 2023, The New York Times, the third-largest newspaper in the United States by circulation, sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used its content to train a generative AI model. Documents related to this lawsuit revealed that a Microsoft executive had described AI-powered data scraping as "the greatest labor theft in human history."
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