After the New York Times, three other newspapers have sued OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement.
As The Verge reports, according to the accusers, the famous chatbot ChatGpt, in formulating its answers, would take, sometimes copying and pasting, entire texts of articles published in the media, without citing the source and author.
The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet filed separate lawsuits in the District of New York.
All three cases are prosecuted by the same law firm.
The publications state that ChatGpt not infrequently reproduces "literally or almost verbatim copyrighted works of journalism without providing information on author, title, terms of use."
According to the plaintiffs, if OpenAI wanted, it could make transparent the sources from which the chatbot draws its knowledge, making them explicit in the responses.
Raw Story and AlterNet go even further, stating that OpenAI and Microsoft "knew that ChatGpt would be less popular and generate less revenue if users knew that its responses infringed copyrights."
Meanwhile, according to a report by Adweek, Google has entered into agreements with some publishers to provide its generative artificial intelligence tools so that they publish stories written by AI, without journalistic review.
All as part of the Google News Initiative (Gni), a program that aims to fund media literacy projects, fact-checking tools and other media resources.
In late 2023, The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, holding the two companies "liable for billions of dollars in legal and actual damages."
OpenAI asked a court to dismiss that claim, asserting that the Times took advantage of a bug in ChatGpt that caused article texts to be replicated word for word.
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