Eight U.S. newspaper publishers filed suit against Microsoft and OpenAI in a New York federal court on Tuesday, claiming the technology companies reuse their articles without permission in generative artificial intelligence products and incorrectly attribute inaccurate information to them.
The group of eight newspaper publishers takes issue with ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot assistant — available in the Windows operating system, the Bing search engine, and other products the software maker produces.
The legal challenge comes four months after The New York Times sued OpenAI over copyright infringement in the ChatGPT chatbot that the startup released in late 2022.
The New York Times case also touched on the matter of OpenAI models regurgitating information from its articles.
Correction: This article has been updated to reflect the correct day the lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI was filed.
Persons:
Sam Altman, Microsoft's, OpenAI, Axel Springer
Organizations:
Economic, U.S, Microsoft, Bing, Southern, of, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, The Mercury, The Denver Post, Orange County Register, Pioneer Press of Minnesota, CNBC, New York Times, OpenAI's, Financial, Google
Locations:
Davos, Switzerland, New York, U.S, of New York, Florida, California, Orange