Eight US newspapers have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, claiming that the tech giants have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news items without consent or payment to train its artificial intelligence chatbots.
The case was filed in a federal court in New York on Tuesday by the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, and other newspapers.
“We’ve spent billions of dollars gathering information and reporting news at our publications, and we can’t allow OpenAI and Microsoft to expand the Big Tech playbook of stealing our work to build their own businesses at our expense,” said a written statement from Frank Pine, executive editor for the MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing.
The other newspapers involved in the action are the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel published by Tribune Publishing, as well as the Orange County Register, St. Paul Pioneer-Press, Denver Post, and Mercury News published by MediaNews Group. Alden Global Capital is the owner of every newspaper.
On Tuesday, Microsoft chose not to comment. A comment request was not immediately answered by OpenAI.
The New York Times filed identical lawsuits against Microsoft and OpenAI in December, claiming that the development and instruction of ChatGPT entailed the unauthorized exploitation of intellectual property. The tech companies’ product, according to The Times, “threatens the Times’s ability to provide that service.”
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