🍁 Five major Canadian media jointly sued OpenAI for billions of Canadian dollars
Five major Canadian news media companies filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of illegally using news content to train AI models such as ChatGPT and making improper profits from it. The lawsuit requires OpenAI to compensate for losses and prohibit it from continuing to use any news articles.
The parties to the lawsuit include The Globe and Mail, Canadian Press, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto Star, Metroland Media and Postmedia. They are asking for up to 20,000 Canadian dollars in damages for each article, which means that if they win, OpenAI may face billions of Canadian dollars in compensation.
OpenAI responded that its model is trained based on public data and is based on fair use and relevant international copyright principles, which is fair to creators. The company works closely with news publishers and displays, attributes and links their content in ChatGPT searches, and provides them with the option to exit at any time.
However, Postmedia said that OpenAI's public claim that it is fair or in the public interest to use other companies' intellectual property for their own commercial interests is wrong. And journalism is in the public interest, while OpenAI's use of other companies' news to achieve its own commercial interests is not in the public interest and is illegal.
This lawsuit is the latest in a series of lawsuits filed by Canadian media against American technology companies. Prior to this, Canadian media had already engaged in a fierce battle with Facebook's parent company Meta. Several American news media, including The New York Times, have also filed lawsuits against OpenAI.
These lawsuits highlight the deep concerns of media organizations that technology companies may infringe on their intellectual property rights and legitimate rights and interests, and have also stimulated widespread attention and discussion in the industry. Therefore, how technology companies can properly respect and protect the legitimate rights and interests of intellectual property rights in the process of using public data and technology has become an important issue worthy of in-depth discussion.
💬What do you think about the legality of using news content for training artificial intelligence models? How should technology companies balance innovation and copyright protection when using media content?
