Shillong, August 17: The New York Times (NYT) is exploring potential legal measures against OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, to safeguard its intellectual property rights linked to its reporting.
The conflict arises from negotiations for a licensing deal where OpenAI would compensate NYT for the incorporation of its stories into AI tools. The discussions have grown contentious, prompting the newspaper to contemplate legal action.
As per IANS news agency, a lawsuit against OpenAI would mark a significant legal clash over copyright protection in the era of generative AI. The NYT recently revised its terms of service to prevent the use of its content for training AI models.
OpenAI is already embroiled in other legal disputes. Comedian Sarah Silverman, along with authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, has sued both OpenAI and Meta, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, over allegations of copyright infringement. The lawsuits claim that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on unlawfully obtained datasets containing their works.
The lawsuit contends that the chatbot failed to reproduce the copyright management information of the plaintiffs’ published works. In another significant development, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating OpenAI for user data collection and dissemination of false information, further adding to the organization’s legal challenges.