Posted 3/6/2024, 7:50:00 PM
Microsoft, OpenAI Seek Dismissal of NYT AI Lawsuit, Call Concerns Reactionary
- Microsoft asks court to dismiss NYT's "doomsday" AI copyright lawsuit, calling it reactionary like Hollywood's response to the VCR
- Microsoft claims NYT content was a minute part of data used to train AI models, not pivotal or substitutable for subscriptions
- OpenAI also asks for dismissal, stating ChatGPT can't replace NYT subscriptions and wasn't used that way
- Lawsuits highlight twin concerns of copyright violations in AI training data and AI generating misinformation
- OpenAI admits "impossible" to train models without some copyrighted works given breadth of protections