OpenAI and Microsoft did not respond to requests for comment. Artificial intelligence companies scrape information available online, including articles published by news organizations, to train generative AI chatbots. Microsoft has a partnership with OpenAI that allows it to capitalize on the company’s AI technology. As part of the agreement, Microsoft’s supercomputers help power OpenAI’s AI research and the tech giant integrates the startup’s technology into its products. The company has been sued by several writers — including comedian Sarah Silverman — who say their books were ingested to train OpenAI’s AI models without their permission.

Source: New York Times December 28, 2023 09:48 UTC