Big media coalition could sue OpenAI for content theft

Big media coalition could sue OpenAI for content theft

San Francisco, 7/25/2023

According to a Semafor report, major media publishers are forming a coalition to potentially sue AI giants like Google and OpenAI for using their content to train AI models.

Media outlets are concerned about declining website traffic from AI chatbots quoting replies from their messages without linking to the articles themselves.

The effort involves Barry Diller’s IAC, the New York Times, Axel Springer and News Corp., owner of the Wall Street Journal. IAC CEO Joey Levin told Semafor that traditional search “finds the best of the web,” while large language models are designed to “steal the best of the web.”

The coalition could potentially file a lawsuit against companies like OpenAI and push for legislation, the report said.

OpenAI, Google and others have entered into discussions with media companies to enter into agreements to use their news content to train AI.

OpenAI and Associated Press (AP) recently entered into a licensing agreement.

As part of the two-year agreement, OpenAI will gain access to a portion of the AP’s 1985 text archive to train its AI algorithms. In addition to the license fees, the AP gets access to OpenAI’s technology and expertise.

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