August 31, 1402 at 10:36
OpenAI has recently been sued as the owner of GPT chat. An event that can cause the ChatGPT AI to be deleted forever.
Weeks after The New York Times updated its terms of service (TOS) to prohibit AI companies from using the publication’s articles and images to train AI models, it now appears that the Times is preparing to Complain to OpenAI.
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Experts speculate that the fallout from the New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI could be devastating for the company, including the destruction of the ChatGPT dataset and fines of up to $150,000 per infringing content.
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The ChatGPT chatbot has been making a lot of noise over the past few months, especially as users have found various ways to take advantage of its unique AI capabilities. The creator of this chatbot is OpenAI, based in San Francisco.
But the success of the language model behind artificial intelligence can come at a very high cost. The language models such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 that make ChatGPT AI work are trained using third-party data. OpenAI has even created a web bot that can pull data from websites to train the GPT model.
However, the problem is that OpenAI was not developed solely on the basis of freely available and copyrighted material. The company also uses copyrighted material to train its AI. For this reason, companies and news media must make a serious decision about whether or not to allow this company to use copyrighted material.
The New York Times sues OpenAI for unauthorized use of its data
According to a new report, The New York Times has taken issue with OpenAI over ChatGPT’s use of its data and is planning to sue it. The journal is currently discussing a lawsuit against OpenAI after updating its terms of service banning AI from using articles and images from the journal to train language models.
NPR spoke with two people who confirmed that The Times’ lawyers are considering whether a lawsuit might be necessary to protect The Times’ intellectual property rights. If the Times were to sue the creator of ChatGPT, it could become the “biggest legal battle” over copyright protection since the popular ChatGPT model was launched.
The speculation comes a month after Sarah Silverman joined other well-known authors who sued OpenAI over similar concerns, seeking copyright protection for their books. So this isn’t the first time we’ve seen OpenAI hit with lawsuits.
Of course, ChatGPT isn’t the only generative AI tool to pose legal challenges to copyright claims. In April, experts said image maker Stable Diffusion may be a copyright infringer due to copyright concerns. Earlier this year, Getty Images sued Stability AI for training the Stable Diffusion model using photos without permission. But OpenAI appears to be a prime target for early lawsuits.
The Times’ concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence models
Unlike the authors, who seem more concerned about maintaining the option to remove their books from OpenAI’s training models, the Times has other concerns about AI tools like ChatGPT. NPR reported that the Times’ main concern is that ChatGPT could use its content to become a competitor by creating text that answers questions based on original Times staff reporting and writing.
The concern of the New York Times about the company’s artificial intelligence model is related to the technology’s ability to summarize content, as this will reduce website traffic and harm the news publication.
As of this month, The Times has banned any use of its content to develop any software program, including training a machine learning or artificial intelligence system. Now it’s clear that the update provides an extra layer of protection for the Times, as NPR reports that the outlet is apparently reconsidering its licensing agreement with OpenAI after the New York Times sued OpenAI.
The license agreement ensured that OpenAI would pay for the New York Times content used to train its models. However, according to NPR, meetings between OpenAI and the Times make this deal unlikely, as it is important to the Times not to have a competitor in the field.
To defend its AI training models, OpenAI would probably have to claim “fair use” of all the web content the company used to train tools like ChatGPT. This is meant to prove that copying Times content does not compete with Times to generate ChatGPT responses.
Experts told NPR that the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI will be a challenge for the company. Unlike Google Books, which won a federal copyright challenge in 2015 and its book excerpts did not provide a significant substitute for real books, ChatGPT could actually be a substitute for some web users.
In June, NYT leaders issued a staff memo that appeared to be an early warning of the threat posed by ChatGPT. In the notes, The Times’ chief content officer Alex Hardiman and deputy editor Sam Dolnick said:
There has been a great deal of panic about protecting publishing rights against generative AI tools. How do we ensure that companies using productive AI respect our intellectual property, brands, reader relationships, and investments?
These notes made examining the benefits and risks of productive artificial intelligence an important issue. Last month, the Associated Press was one of the first news organizations to sign a licensing deal with OpenAI, but the terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Today, the Associated Press reported that it has joined other news organizations in developing standards for the use of artificial intelligence in newsrooms, acknowledging that many news organizations are concerned about AI companies using their content without permission or payment.
In April, the News Media Alliance published AI Principles, seeking to protect publishers’ intellectual property by emphasizing that productive AI developers must obtain permission from publishers for the right to use their content for AI training.
What Will Happen to ChatGPT After New York Times Sues OpenAI?
The exact nature of what the lawsuit might bring OpenAI is unclear, but experts said the lawsuit could cost OpenAI up to $150,000 if copyright infringement is found.
In addition, NPR reported that OpenAI faces the risk of a federal judge ordering the entire ChatGPT data set to be completely redacted if the Times successfully proves that the company illegally copied its content and the OpenAI training models court. limit
So the New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI could force the company to shut down ChatGPT and start training its language model all over again. Such an event would essentially nullify all the work the company has done on the model so far. If the lawsuit goes anywhere, it could lead to other companies and websites trying to take similar steps to protect their work.
NPR noted that the New York Times and OpenAI could reach some sort of licensing agreement that would allow the company to pay the publication for access to the content, which could then legally be used to train the GPT model.
But things may not go so well. The Times may not stop complaining, or OpenAI may decide to shut down its ChatGPT chatbot. What the result will be can only be understood with the passage of time.
AI models have had their share of criticism since the beginning, and it seems that language models always rely heavily on what others have already done, which is one of the reasons many people have trouble with them.
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