Joining the list of many other ongoing lawsuits relating to generative AI, The New York Times is now waging a battle in court against Microsoft and OpenAI due to their use of NYT content in Copilot and ChatGPT [h/t The Verge].
Specifically, The New York Times is seeking “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” from both AI providers for using “millions” of NYT articles by either directly quoting them or closely imitating them.
As The New York Times says in its lawsuit, “Through Microsoft’s Bing Chat (recently rebranded as “Copilot”) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Defendants seek to free-ride on The Times’ massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment.”
