The Center for Investigative Reporting sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court on Thursday for alleged copyright infringement.
Earlier in the day, OpenAI and Time magazine announced a"multi-year content deal" that will allow OpenAI to access current and archived articles from more than 100 years of Time's history.The CIR alleged in the suit, filed in the Southern District of New York, that OpenAI"copied, used, abridged, and displayed CIR's valuable content without CIR's permission or authorization, and without any compensation to CIR.
"When they populated their training sets with works of journalism, Defendants had a choice: to respect works of journalism, or not," the plaintiffs wrote in the lawsuit."Defendants chose the latter.""OpenAI and Microsoft started vacuuming up our stories to make their product more powerful, but they never asked for permission or offered compensation, unlike other organizations that license our material," Bauerlein said.