Open AI, will the New York Times be able to defeat Microsoft?

27 December 20235 months ago babelfish

The New York Times is suing OpenAI, the company that owns ChatGpt, and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Here because.

Artificial intelligence steals the profession from newspapers and is bad for democracy. This is the assumption behind the lawsuit that the New York Times has just filed in the civil district court of Southern New York against Microsoft and Open AI, accusing them of having used millions of newspaper articles for free to train the chatbots that today compete with them . There is no money at stake – in the 69 pages filed today there is no mention of figures, for now – but of the information structure. A jury will decide.

This is why the cause is destined to make history. On the one hand, the supporters of technology at all costs; on the other, those who claim not only the right to be compensated for the work done but above all the role of those who collect, validate and distribute news. “The defendants want to ride the New York Times' massive investments in their journalism for free,” it reads . According to the newspaper, Open AI and Microsoft "use the Times' content without compensation to create products that replace it and steal its audience."

Contrary to what one might think, in this case the David is the printed paper. The newspaper's market capitalization is less than 8 billion dollars, while Microsoft alone has invested 13 in Open AI, whose valuation is now estimated at over 80 billion. There is no doubt that, at least from a financial point of view, Goliath is today an algorithm.

This is breaking news, currently being updated.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/new-york-times-microsoft/ on Wed, 27 Dec 2023 15:52:50 +0000.