ChatGPT gets sued for Copyright Infringement

The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), one of the oldest nonprofit newsrooms, has filed a case against OpenAI and its business partner, Microsoft, for unauthorised use of its contents by AI.

ChatGPT operates by leveraging its deep understanding of language patterns to generate text-based responses that mimic human conversation, making it a versatile tool for various applications, from answering questions to generating creative writing.

Such is based on training of vast amounts of text data from the internet, books, articles, and other sources.

The Nonprofit says that OpenAI has used its content without any permission and has not offered any compensation for violating the journalism copyrights. As filed in the New York federal court, it states OpenAI’s business is "built on the exploitation of copyrighted works".

Monika Bauerlein, the nonprofit's CEO, has mentioned to the Associated Press that,

The lawsuit has landed at the Manhattan’s federal court, against OpenAI and Microsoft, where the companies are also engaged in a series of other copyright lawsuits filed by The New York Times, other media outlets and bestselling authors such as John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin.

OpenAI has not replied directly to this lawsuit, which was filed on Thursday, June 27, however stated that they are,

At one page, where AI is getting increased global acceptance with ease of task automations, on the other page, allegations are imposed on them for misuse of copyrighted data for training the AI datasets.

While many organisations have constructed a huge blowback to OpenAI and Microsoft, there are other outlets as well those have signed deals with OpenAI to share content and collaborate on artificial intelligence development.

Monika Bauerlein has further stated in a statement that,

OpenAI was co-founded by Elon Musk back in 2015 and later after 3 years, he resigned to "eliminate potential future conflict". Elon Musk has now started his own AI company, xAI, in July 2023.

On March 1, 2024, he did sue OpenAI for abandoning the startup's original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity and not for profit. OpenAI "set the founding agreement aflame" last year when it released its most powerful language model GPT-4, the lawsuit said.

Now in June 11, he has dismissed the lawsuit without any stated reason.

News industry has now been struggling for long to make money out of the advertisements as AI has taken over the internet.

Referring to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, CIR has stated that they are seeking,