Media sues OpenAI: Canada's CBC/Radio Canada, Postmedia, Metroland, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and Canadian Press have filed joint lawsuit against the creators of ChataGPT. The lawsuit concerns copyright. Applicants are demanding compensation and they want to receive all profitwhich OpenAI obtained, training your language model on their materials. Moreover, they demand ban Sam Altman's future use of our news articles.
The media is rebelling against AI: Canadian media in a joint statement accuse OpenAI of regular copyright infringementand also about reaping profits from their materials – without questions for consent and without payment of compensation. The same arguments were put forward by the New York Times, which filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in December 2023. This case is ongoing.
Does the machine read or acquire information? OpenAI ensures that it trains models on publicly available data and that its operations are based on international copyright regulations. Richard Lachman, a media and technology researcher, says so the arguments are not meaningless. If a human can read publicly available content, why can't a machine do it? However, media companies claim that algorithms they don't read content so much as collect dataand this is already against their terms of service. And although OpenAI won a similar lawsuit in USA against Raw Story, it's not clear what decision will be made in Canadawhere the provisions include free of charge so-called fair use.
More about the dangers of training AI you can read in Kacper Kolibabski's article “Artificial intelligence is going crazy, artists are gnashing their teeth. Generative AI has made quite a stir, but is it still art.