Artificial intelligence
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft over ChatGPT
The software company OpenAI caused a sensation a little over a year ago with its AI chatbot Chat GPT. photo
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The newspaper accuses the companies of using knowledge from millions of articles to use ChatGPT. It’s about claims for damages running into billions of dollars.
The New York Times was the first major American newspaper to praise the software companies OpenAI and Microsoft for their AI chatbot ChatGPT sued. The paper accuses the companies of using knowledge from millions of articles to feed ChatGPT and thereby building a business at the expense of the New York Times.
“The purpose of this lawsuit is to hold those responsible for the billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages they owe to The Times for its unlawful copying and use of its uniquely valuable works,” the lawsuit states.
The abbreviation AI stands for artificial intelligence, which refers to methods of transferring human thinking processes to computers. A chatbot is a text dialogue system based on a computer program.
Hype about AI between utopia and dystopia
The software company OpenAI, which is significantly supported by Microsoft, caused a sensation a little over a year ago with its AI chatbot. ChatGPT fueled the hype about artificial intelligence with expectations of a digital land of milk and honey for everyone, right up to the fear of humanity being wiped out. Accordingly, OpenAI became the most important start-up in the world with an estimated value of 80 billion dollars – a company that could change the world and put tech heavyweights like Google and the Facebook group Meta under pressure.
Users can easily communicate freely with ChatGPT and, for example, distribute tasks or query knowledge – they then receive answers that often hardly differ from human ones. To do this, OpenAI has fed ChatGPT with almost all of the knowledge on the Internet. From forum entries, company websites, scripts to journalistic articles. The “New York Times” is now hoping for compensation. It is not impossible that a successful lawsuit could find many imitators in the media industry.