Recent events have shown that AI is having trouble with copyright and theft.
OpenAI is an AI platform that has been trying to stay out of copyright lawsuits since it and other AI systems used copyrighted news information to compete with media companies. But they haven’t been giving the news story publishers credit or money for their work.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is trying to stop these cases by finding a way for their AI systems to learn from news stories. People from CNN and Fox Corp have said that he has been talking to them about how they can work together to get access to news material that would train their AI systems. They’ve already said that they have deals with both Associated Press and Axel Springer for material.
This is happening because the famous chatbot was sued more than once. They said in a recent lawsuit against the New York Times that they had to pay the NYT or stop taking their material.
Right now, it’s unclear because US politicians are still debating whether AI training is legal or not. A person in the business spoke out and said, “I think they’re now seeing what happens: if you negotiate with different entities separately, each one will act differently.” It’s not as clear what will happen after that.”
The New York Times is still suing OpenAI, even though a possible answer was talked about. The Washington Post has also had problems with them and has been in talks with OpenAI.
Many of the OpenAI robots have given answers to questions that are exact copies of what you can find on many of these news sites. This has caused problems. One of the most recent examples was a review of Guy Fieri’s American Kitchen and Bar Restaurant.
Even though there have been cases and these problems have not gone away, OpenAI has said that it is “a rare bug that we are working to drive to zero.”
These days, Time’s lawsuit is the most important one because they have brought receipts to show that many of their stories were copied directly from the AI chatbot.
Professor of digital and information law at Cornell Law School, James Grimmelman, said, “a lot of other lawsuits have relied on much thinner showings of copying, like showing you can get it to generate a summary of a book or one sentence at a time.” He was referring to Time’s proof that they used in their lawsuit.
It’s been going on for a while, and we’ll see how many lawsuits are filed as they try to find an answer.
