{"id":359,"date":"2024-01-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reshebniki-online.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2024-02-22T15:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:38:01","slug":"how-copyright-lawsuits-could-kill-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reshebniki-online.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/how-copyright-lawsuits-could-kill-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"How copyright lawsuits could kill OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police officers stand outside the New York Times headquarters in New York City. | Drew Angerer\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The New York Times v. OpenAI, explained.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re old enough to remember watching the hit kid\u2019s show Animaniacs<\/em><\/a>, you probably remember Napster, too. The peer-to-peer file-sharing site, which made it easy to download music for free in an era before Spotify<\/a> and Apple<\/a> Music, took college campuses by storm in the late 1990s. This did not escape the notice of the record companies, and in 2001, a federal court ruled<\/a> that Napster was liable for copyright infringement. The content producers fought back against the technology platform and won. <\/p>\n

But that was 2001 \u2014 before the iPhone, before YouTube<\/a>, and before generative AI<\/a>. This generation\u2019s big copyright battle is pitting journalists against artificially intelligent software that has learned from and can regurgitate their reporting. <\/p>\n

Late last year, the New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft<\/a>, alleging that the companies are stealing its copyrighted content to train their large language models and then profiting off of it. In a point-by-point rebuttal<\/a> to the lawsuit\u2019s accusations, OpenAI claimed no wrongdoing. Meanwhile, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and Law held a hearing<\/a> in which news executives implored lawmakers to force AI companies to pay publishers for using their content. <\/p>\n

Depending on who you ask, what\u2019s at stake is either the future of the news business, the future of copyright law<\/a>, the future of innovation, or, specifically, the future of OpenAI and other generative AI companies. Or all of the above.<\/p>\n