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Lawsuit says companies gave NYT content ‘particular emphasis’ and ‘seek to free-ride’ on paper’s investment in its journalism
The New York Times has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in an escalation of a fight over intellectual content used to train generative artificial intelligence and large-language model systems.
The lawsuit, filed in a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, claims that while the companies copied information from many sources to build their systems, they give New York Times content “particular emphasis” and “seek to free-ride on the Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment”.
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