SOPA Images/Getty ImagesCanadian news companies have sued OpenAI, alleging the ChatGPT-maker uses their content without permission.The lawsuit claims OpenAI violated Canadian copyright laws and profited from it.OpenAI faces similar copyright infringement lawsuits from other news outlets and authors.Several top Canadian news companies have accused ChatGPT creator OpenAI of intentionally ripping off their copyrighted content to train its large language models.Media companies Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada allege in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that the artificial intelligence startup has "engaged in ongoing, deliberate, and unauthorized misappropriation" of their news works.The lawsuit, filed on Friday in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and viewed by Business Insider, accuses OpenAI of violating Canadian copyright laws and "unjustly enriching" itself at the expense of the news media companies.In response to the lawsuit, an OpenAI spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement that its models are "trained on publicly available data, grounded in fair use and related international copyright principles that are fair for creators and support innovation.""We collaborate closely with news publishers, including in the display, attribution and links to their content in ChatGPT search, and offer them easy ways to opt-out should they so desire," the spokesperson said.The news companies alleged in a joint statement that OpenAI "regularly breaches copyright and online terms of use by scraping large swaths of content from Canadian media to help develop its products, such as ChatGPT.""OpenAI is capitalizing and profiting from the use of this content, without getting permission or compensating content owners," the statement said.
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nmusumeci@businessinsider.com (Natalie Musumeci), Business Insider
Fri, 11/29/2024 - 3:06pm
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