Canadian news companies sue OpenAI | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
from Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 29 Nov 21:33
https://lemmy.world/post/22589918

A group of Canadian news and media companies filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT maker has infringed their copyrights and unjustly enriched itself at their expense.

The companies behind the lawsuit include the Toronto Star, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Globe and Mail, and others who seek to win monetary damages and ban OpenAI from making further use of their work.

The news companies said that OpenAI has used content scraped from their websites to train the large language models that power ChatGPT — content that is “the product of immense time, effort, and cost on behalf of the News Media Companies and their journalists, editors, and staff.”

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200ok@lemmy.world on 30 Nov 02:04 next collapse

The star, globe, and CBC. Cuts deep

kippinitreal@lemmy.world on 30 Nov 03:03 next collapse

Good luck to them! It’d be interesting to see how they prove scraping. Like do you find something unique to your website & then prompt the model to give you just that? So you use the citation/reference features that link to your websites?

Knowing the slimeballs at OpenAI I’d wager they’d have covered their tracks.

EDIT To be clear, I’m not suggesting they deleted evidence, but they “laundered” the data via a public training dataset like Eluther AI’s “the pile”.

distortwave@lemmy.ml on 30 Nov 15:27 collapse

Ew they used postmedia to train their models? Yuck