The publications accuse these companies of violating their copyright in creating technologies used in artificial intelligence (AI) assistants.
“This lawsuit alleges that (the companies) stole millions of publishers’ copyrighted articles without permission or payment in order to sell their generative artificial intelligence products, including ChatGPT and Copilot (from Microsoft),” the lawsuit filed states. in a New York court.
The plaintiffs, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Sun Sentinel of Florida, San Jose Mercury News, Denver Post, Orange County Register and St. Paul Pioneer Press are owned by Alden Global Capital, a Florida-based hedge fund. which created the second largest American press group after Gannett, owner of USA Today.
According to their lawyers, “this trial will demonstrate that defendants must not only obtain publishers’ consent to use their content, but must also fairly compensate them for such use.”
They also criticize AI assistants for offering excerpts from articles and, in some cases, attributing misleading or inaccurate information to publications.
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