Microsoft: of 8.2 million Copilot chats, overlaps with newspaper texts found in under 1%
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The copyright dispute is moving from principles to numbers: if the court agrees that SI almost never copies texts verbatim, training on others' material will gain a strong precedent.
In the lawsuit by The New York Times, the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Authors Guild, Microsoft asked the court to rule without a jury. Its argument: of 8.2 million Copilot logs selected by the plaintiff publications' keywords, only 59,545 responses contained at least 16 consecutive words from their material, and overlaps longer than 30 words with books were found in just 24 responses and only for 10 of 212 books checked. The plaintiffs reply that even partial replacement of articles on such a scale takes readers and advertising away from the publications.
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