The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement::The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with information – technology that now competes with the Times.
Reminds me of Nokia suing Apple (two waves), Blockbuster suing Netflix, and Yahoo suing Facebook. Threatened, declining company suing a disruptor is what we can expect will always happen I guess. Will be nice to see this stuff finally tested in court though.
Except the news still needs to come from somewhere. While GPT can “create” things, it’s not a journalist. It’s just the next step in aggregation skimming money from the actual sources.
Anyone remember when Bing started threatening people? https://time.com/6256529/bing-openai-chatgpt-danger-alignment/