The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used millions of its articles to train AI, the first major US media outlet to sue
Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
This is going to be significant, either OpenAI/Microsoft finds a way to not pay or they are forced to license the content at which point...everyone whose text they used could be entitled to payments which would be unsustainable.
“The Times is the first major American media organization to sue the companies, the creators of ChatGPT and other popular A.I. platforms, over copyright issues associated with its written works...”