The Center for Investigative Reporting has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging copyright infringement in a new fight against unauthorized use of news content in building artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n
The news nonprofit, which produces Mother Jones and Reveal, alleges in the lawsuit that OpenAI, the creator of the popular ChatGPT tool, used its content without permission or offering compensation.<\/p>\n
OpenAI\u2019s platforms are trained using human works and in particular, human-made journalism, to \u201cattempt to mimic how humans write and speak,\u201d the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n
Filed in the Southern District of New York, the suit argues that the company attempts to compete for the attention of consumers to earn profit. It said Open AI has used \u201chundreds of thousands, if not millions\u201d of journalistic articles, undermining the Center for Investigative Reporting’s standing with the public.<\/p>\n
Monika Bauerlein, the nonprofit\u2019s CEO, told The Associated Press<\/a> that \u201cit\u2019s immensely dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur existence relies on users finding our work valuable and deciding to support it,\u201d she said, voicing concerns that users will now create a relationship with the AI tool instead.<\/p>\n