00:00 One of the biggest newspapers in the US, taking on some of the biggest names in the world
00:05 of tech.
00:06 The New York Times has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT,
00:13 and Microsoft over their use of its content to train chatbots.
00:17 It's the first major American media organisation to do so.
00:21 The lawsuit says that the tech company should be held responsible for billions of dollars
00:25 in damages.
00:27 It claims that millions of NYT articles were used without its permission to make ChatGPT
00:32 smarter, and that the tool is now competing with the newspaper as a trustworthy source
00:37 of information.
00:39 "If Microsoft and OpenAI want to use our work for commercial purposes, the law requires
00:45 that they first obtain our permission.
00:47 They have not done so."
00:50 ChatGPT and other large language models learn by analysing a huge amount of data, which
00:56 is often found online.
00:58 Companies building generative AI tools argue that the "fair use" legal provision allows
01:03 for their use of material from the internet.
01:05 But the NYT says that the use of its articles, which it claims are even quoted by chatbots
01:11 when asked about current affairs, means people can access their content without paying for
01:16 a subscription.
01:17 OpenAI and investors Microsoft have not responded to requests for comment.
01:22 The lawsuit is the latest in an escalating battle between content providers and the world
01:27 of tech over the material used to train AI systems.
01:31 Similar copyright cases have been brought by a group of American authors and leading
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