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Recently, Microsoft Corporation and OpenAI, the United States, have been repeatedly sued in court for copyright issues. On the 5th, well-known American writers Nicholas Basbein and Nicholas Gage filed a class action lawsuit in Manhattan Federal Court in New York, accusing the two companies of infringing their copyrights and those of other writers.
The authors allege in the lawsuit that Microsoft and OpenAI used information from their books to train artificial intelligence products, including the chatbot ChatGPT, and that the actions of the two companies constituted "malicious mass theft of copyrighted works."
The lawsuit alleges that Microsoft and OpenAI neither received a license nor paid compensation. It is intolerable to "steal" the work of writers and use it to build billions of dollars worth of businesses. The two writers demanded damages from Microsoft and OpenAI.
Prior to this, the two companies had already been sued by several American writers. On December 27, 2023, the New York Times also filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, becoming the first major American media to sue an AI technology company for infringement.
ChatGPT is a large language model-based chatbot program developed by OpenAI. Microsoft is OpenAI's largest investor and important partner.
With the development of artificial intelligence technology, the application of large language models is becoming more and more extensive, and the copyright disputes behind them are also intensifying. These writers, as well as the New York Times, argue that their work involves a significant investment of intellectual and financial resources, and that the unauthorized use of their work by AI technology companies has cost them enormous. Some technology companies that develop AI products argue that the content available on the open internet can be used to train AI products under the relevant legal provisions. The U.S. Copyright Office said the department has launched an initiative to study a range of issues raised by artificial intelligence. In August 2023, the U.S. Copyright Office issued a notice seeking input on the initiative and is evaluating whether legislative or regulatory measures are warranted.
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Editor: Wang Yifan