Recently, a landmark event occurred in the field of artificial intelligence: The New York Times officially filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using millions of articles to train the GPT model without authorization, with a claim amount of billions of dollars. This move has aroused widespread concern in the industry about artificial intelligence intellectual property issues, and also heralds the severe challenges of intellectual copyright disputes in the future development of artificial intelligence. The outcome of this case will have a profound impact on the future development of the artificial intelligence industry, and may become a benchmark case for the balance between intellectual property protection and the development of artificial intelligence technology. The indictment also pointed out that GPT-4 plagiarized verbatim content from the New York Times, further intensifying the intensity of this copyright war.
The New York Times formally sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using millions of articles to train the GPT model without authorization, claiming billions of dollars. This case may become a watershed in artificial intelligence knowledge copyright disputes. The prosecution documents revealed that GPT-4 plagiarized verbatim content from the New York Times, arousing widespread concern in the industry.
The final verdict of this case will have a profound impact on the entire AI industry, especially in terms of model training data sources and copyright ownership, and will set new rules and standards for future AI development. Major AI companies need to re-examine their model training methods and actively seek cooperation with copyright holders to avoid similar disputes. This also reminds us that while enjoying the convenience brought by artificial intelligence technology, we also need to pay attention to the protection of intellectual property rights and maintain a fair and reasonable market order.