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NYT-led group asks court to sanction OpenAI in US copyright dispute
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NYT-led group asks court to sanction OpenAI in US copyright dispute

The New York Times, the Daily News, and other U.S. media outlets have asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, alleging the company is obstructing a copyright infringement trial. They claim OpenAI is hiding evidence related to how its AI technology, ChatGPT, was trained using millions of news articles. The lawsuit centers on whether AI chatbots are unfairly competing with traditional news sources by siphoning web traffic without performing the journalistic work required to gather news. OpenAI argues that releasing ChatGPT logs would violate user privacy, while the plaintiffs accuse the company of making misleading claims about its ability to detect copyrighted content in its training data. This legal battle comes amid growing concerns among news organizations about the impact of AI on their business models.

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NYT-led group asks court to sanction OpenAI in US copyright dispute

The New York Times, the Daily News, and other U.S. media outlets have asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, alleging the company is obstructing a copyright infringement trial. They claim OpenAI is hiding evidence related to how its AI technology, ChatGPT, was trained using millions of news articles. The lawsuit centers on whether AI chatbots are unfairly competing with traditional news sources by siphoning web traffic without performing the journalistic work required to gather news. OpenAI argues that releasing ChatGPT logs would violate user privacy, while the plaintiffs accuse the company of making misleading claims about its ability to detect copyrighted content in its training data. This legal battle comes amid growing concerns among news organizations about the impact of AI on their business models.

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