Canadian news publishers suing ChatGPT developer OpenAI - Lake ...
A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia, and CBC/Radio-Canada, is taking legal action against OpenAI. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI has been using news content from Canadian media to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system without proper authorization.
In a joint statement, the publishers claim that OpenAI has been scraping a substantial amount of content from their platforms, thereby infringing on copyright laws. They argue that OpenAI has been benefiting financially from their content without obtaining consent or providing compensation to the rightful content owners.
This case marks the first of its kind in Canada, as similar lawsuits are currently ongoing in the United States. For instance, the New York Times has filed a lawsuit against both OpenAI and Microsoft over similar copyright concerns.
Generative AI technologies have the ability to produce a wide range of content, such as text, images, videos, and code, based on a given prompt. However, these systems rely on analyzing extensive sets of existing data, which in this case includes the copyrighted material from Canadian news publishers.
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