Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
A lawsuitfiled by The Seattle Times and Newsday argued that with the advent of AI, the journalism industry could become “broken beyond repair.” The lawsuit described generative AI as “a snake eating its own tail” that could “destroy the very organizations” that produce the content it’s trained on.
“AI products like ChatGPT and CoPilot are touted as producers of content, but in fact they are rapacious consumers, devouring human-authored content and delivering back to the world copies and derivative imitations of that same original content they consumed to achieve their commercial objectives,” the lawsuit said.
A Microsoft spokespersontold GeekWirethat the company is “surprised by the lawsuit” but is “always happy to sit down and explore solutions to this type of dispute.”
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