USA Today vs OpenAI: Key questions over ChatGPT training data , news copyright and whether publishers should be paid for their work
The growing use of artificial intelligence in news, research and everyday searches has created a difficult question for the media industry: can technology companies use journalism to build commercial AI systems without first obtaining permission from the publishers who produced it? A new lawsuit filed by USA Today Co against OpenAI has brought that dispute into sharper focus. The media corporation and its several newspapers have sued the AI firm, claiming that it has violated copyright laws by copying hundreds of thousands of articles and other materials to train the large language models for ChatGPT.
