The NYT becomes the first major media company to sue AI (artificial intelligence) companies for copyright infringement. This is complete opposite of what other media firms have been doing, like with Associated Press working on brokering deals with the growing world of AI companies for proper licensing, basically payments in exchange for the rights to use their content to train their large language models.
But now, NYT joins the other crowd which includes major music companies, authors and comedians which have already filed lawsuits against various generative AI companies for using their content without permission, and from the details released to far NYT seeks to hold AI responsible for billions of dollars.
It is a complex battle, news companies have already been fighting big tech firms for a while over scraping their content, some of which is behind a paywall, and that is part of this lawsuit as well, as NYT is accusing the tech giants of removing rights-management information in generating outputs from the GPT models, which often included verbatim reproductions which is not permitted under US or EU law.
At least in EU, they are working on new AI act, that proposes a flexible approach to the use of copyrighted material in AI training, with it suggesting that “summaries” should be used rather than detailed listings, either way both in the US with lawsuits and EU with AI regulations, the industry on both sides are going to have to learn how to adapt and boundaries will need to be drawn up on content creation and distribution in our new era of AI-driven world, much like what occurred before with invention of the printing press, and then again with the boom of the .com world and world-wide-websites.
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