“Our ongoing conversations with the New York Times have been productive and moving forward constructively, so we are surprised and disappointed with this development.”AdvertisementMicrosoft spokespeople did not return a request for comment. The Times’s lawsuit, however, includes multiple examples of OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI model outputting New York Times articles word for word. AdvertisementLegal experts have said that plaintiffs will have stronger cases of copyright infringement if they can show that AI tools are directly reproducing copyrighted works, rather than paraphrasing the information from them. But their online catalogues, going back decades, have probably already been used to create AI tools. And earlier this year, Google pitched media outlets on building and selling AI tools that could assist journalists.

Source: New York Times December 28, 2023 06:01 UTC