New York Times SUES OpenAI and Microsoft! 💰🔥⚖️ The Most Important Lawsuit in AI History

1. The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for illegally using their content.

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The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that they illegally used New York Times content to build chat GPT models, resulting in a trillion dollars of value creation.

• The lawsuit claims that OpenAI was able to reproduce New York Times articles word for word and falsely attribute them to the New York Times.
• The allegations suggest that OpenAI's actions have had health consequences and threaten the Times' ability to provide its services.

2. The lawsuit centers around the concept of fair use.

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The core of the lawsuit hinges on the definition of fair use, which is a legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders.

• OpenAI argues that their use of New York Times content falls under fair use because it serves a new transformative purpose.
• The lawsuit questions whether using copyrighted material to create AI models that substitute the Times and steal audiences away from it can be considered fair use.

3. The New York Times emphasizes the value and effort put into creating original content.

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The New York Times highlights the significant time, energy, and money invested in creating original content, which is vital to democracy and increasingly rare and valuable.

• Times journalists go where the story is, often at great risk and cost, to inform the public about important issues.
• The lawsuit aims to protect the Times' independent journalism and its relationship with readers.

4. Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI has contributed to its market capitalization.

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Microsoft's deployment of Times-trained language models throughout its product line has helped boost its market capitalization by a trillion dollars in the past year.

• Microsoft's close relationship with OpenAI and the integration of AI models into its software have significantly contributed to its value gain.
• This highlights Microsoft's dominance in the AI space and its strategic investment in OpenAI.

5. OpenAI's transition from nonprofit to for-profit status and its impact on openness.

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OpenAI, initially founded as a nonprofit, quickly became a multi-billion dollar for-profit business and ended its commitment to openness.

• The lawsuit criticizes OpenAI for exploiting copyrighted works without permission and highlights the shift in its values and business model.
• OpenAI's commercial offerings, such as chat GPT, have generated significant revenues and attracted Fortune 500 companies.

6. New York Times content had significant weight in training GPT-3.

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The New York Times content accounted for 22% of the weight in the training set for GPT-3, despite constituting less than 4% of the total tokens.

• The quality of New York Times content was highly regarded by OpenAI and Microsoft.
• The New York Times domain is one of the top 15 domains by volume in the web Text data set used to train GPT-3.

7. Microsoft had knowledge and control over the training data.

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Microsoft had the right and ability to prevent OpenAI from using any particular work for training, as they controlled the physical hardware used for training.

• Microsoft's physical control over the supercomputer used for training gave them the power to stop the use of specific works.
• Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI made them aware of the nature and identity of the training corpuses and selection criteria.

8. Chat GPT reproduced New York Times content word for word.

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Chat GPT was able to replicate New York Times articles with word-for-word accuracy, including content behind paywalls.

• Chat GPT's web browsing capabilities allowed it to fetch and reproduce New York Times articles.
• The ability to reproduce copyrighted content raises ethical and legal concerns.

9. Microsoft Bing search engine reproduced New York Times content.

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Microsoft Bing search engine generated synthetic search results using New York Times works, including reproducing articles word for word.

• Bing search engine could retrieve and display New York Times articles within its interface.
• The reproduction of copyrighted content without authorization negatively affects the New York Times brand.

10. OpenAI's models falsely attributed fabricated articles to the New York Times.

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OpenAI's models hallucinated entire articles and falsely attributed them to the New York Times, negatively impacting the brand.

• OpenAI's models created articles that did not exist and falsely credited them to the New York Times.
• The fabrication of articles and false attribution undermines the credibility of AI-generated content.

11. Microsoft benefited from the OpenAI relationship through increased usage and advertising revenues.

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Microsoft's investments in OpenAI have substantially increased over time, and the integration of GPT-4 and Microsoft Bing search engine boosted usage and advertising revenues.

• Microsoft's investment in OpenAI has been highly profitable.
• The integration of GPT-4 and Bing search engine led to a significant increase in daily users and advertising revenues.

12. The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement and other counts.

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The New York Times filed a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement, contributory copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright Act removal of copyright management information, common law unfair competition, and trademark dilution.

• The lawsuit seeks substantial damages from OpenAI and Microsoft.
• The lawsuit highlights the negative impact on the New York Times brand and the AI industry as a whole.