The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging copyright infringement, claiming the tech companies used their articles to train chatbots that now threaten the jobs of journalist.
The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Wednesday, said the companies illegally fed 'millions of articles' to Microsoft's Bing Chat and OpenAI's ChatGPT to develop their products.
'This action seeks to hold them responsible for the billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages that they owe for the unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works,' said the complaint.
The Times argued that OpenAI and Microsoft artificial intelligence programs use large-language models that were developed by copying their articles with a particular emphasis.
The lawsuit said, 'Defendants seek to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment.'
