Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for training SI on their articles
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The dispute over whether SI may learn from everything people have written is gaining new participants; each such case decides whether models will keep freely absorbing humanity's knowledge or whether every line will have to be paid for.
The suit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York: the newspapers allege that the companies bypassed paywalls, downloaded their articles and trained ChatGPT, Copilot and Bing's SI features on them, and that SI answers take traffic, subscribers and advertising from publishers and sometimes attribute made-up content to them. The plaintiffs demand the destruction of copies of their texts, as well as the datasets and models they ended up in. The irony is that Microsoft and OpenAI previously funded Seattle Times journalism projects; Microsoft said it was surprised by the suit and ready to discuss solutions, and OpenAI cited fair use.