Artificial intelligence companies are facing increasing pressure from the biggest names in the worlds of technology and media as new tools raise new questions about the risks posed by chatbots, which pose a threat that rivals human intelligence.
Elon Musk has become the latest powerful figure to sue OpenAI, claiming the company and its CEO Sam Altman have strayed from its original mission by putting profit over the interests of humanity.
The lawsuit filed Thursday joins a growing list of legal claims against ChatGPT creators in recent months. It has been sued by prominent authors such as John Grisham and Jodi Pickult, journalists, and news organizations such as the New York Times. The company also faces an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into whether it misled investors after firing Mr. Altman in November before he was rehired.
Many of the complaints targeting AI companies like OpenAI accuse them of violating copyright laws and illegally swiping information from media companies online. Justin Hughes, a professor of copyright law at Loyola Law School, said a victory for the plaintiffs could mean AI companies would have to pay to use certain materials to train their programs. He said that there is a sex.
“Some people melodramatically say that copyright ‘threatens’ this new technology, or that copyright could shut down generative AI. That’s simply untrue,” Hughes said. . “We hope that the future of AI will be determined in part by thoughtful and balanced policy and regulation. Copyright will not hurt or kill generative AI.”
The main lawsuits to watch are:
Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman, Gregory Brockman, OpenAI Inc.
Mr. Musk has accused the company he helped found of violating its founding agreement to put profits above the interests of humanity.
Musk’s lawyers said in their complaint that the startup was set up as a nonprofit organization and as a foil for other artificial intelligence ventures. But they claim the startup has been “turned into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the world’s largest technology company,” in violation of its mission.
The CEO of Tesla Inc. and owner of X Corporation (formerly Twitter Inc.) said artificial general intelligence poses an “existential threat.” Musk, the world’s richest man, resigned from OpenAI’s board in 2018, citing philosophical differences over technology development.
New York Times Co. v. Microsoft Corp.
Late last year, the New York Times sued OpenAI and its largest investor, Microsoft, alleging that the company illegally used millions of Times articles to build its artificial intelligence tools.
The lawsuit alleges that chatbots like ChatGPT are attempting to “free-ride” on the paper’s content, potentially hurting the paper’s revenue. But the tech startup hit back in an attempt to dismiss some of the claims, accusing the Times of paying someone to hack its products and generate abnormal output to back up its claims. did.
The lawsuit comes at an especially tough time for the media. Many news organizations have closed or laid off staff recently, and many are struggling to turn a profit in the face of declining advertising revenue.
Axel Springer, other media outlets sue Google
A group of more than 30 European news organizations sued Google in the Netherlands on Wednesday, seeking $2.3 billion, accusing the search giant’s advertising business of violating antitrust laws.
Media organizations including Politico owner Axel Springer face rising costs for ad tech services as the Alphabet Inc. unit’s “dominant” position in the advertising market narrows revenue streams, according to a legal statement. claims. The company representing the plaintiff.
The Intercept Media Inc. v. OpenAI Inc. and Raw Story Media Inc. v. OpenAI Inc.
Raw Story Media Inc., The Intercept Media Inc., and AlterNet Media Inc. filed two lawsuits against OpenAI in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday.
The news outlet alleges that OpenAI and co-defendant Microsoft violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 by stripping them of copyrighted information when training ChatGPT.
Basbens v. Microsoft Corporation
In January, journalist Nicholas Gage and author Nicholas Basbanes filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing the companies of unfairly using their copyrighted material to train AI models.
Gage has written investigative articles for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Basbanes is writing a book about the history of publishing.
Sancton v. OpenAI Inc.
OpenAI was sued by journalist and non-fiction author Julian Sancton. The author of “Madhouse at the End of the Earth” claimed the company used his work without permission to train a generative AI tool. Sancton said that OpenAI and Microsoft “completely ignored” author rights when developing the models that power ChatGPT.
The training process “stealed authors’ content for the purpose of creating a machine built to produce the very type of content for which authors were typically compensated,” according to the November complaint.
Concord Music Group vs. Anthropic PBC
A group of top music publishers, including Concord Music Group, sued AI company Anthropic. The October complaint alleges that the Amazon-backed startup uses copyrighted lyrics from at least 500 songs and that its Claude AI chatbot disseminates the lyrics on its platform.
Authors Guild vs. OpenAI LP
The Writers Guild of America, along with more than a dozen famous authors, including Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI. Microsoft was later added as a defendant.
The organization claims that its large-scale language model is involved in “coordinated theft on a grand scale.” To date, more than 15,000 authors, including Margaret Atwood and Nora Roberts, have written to companies including OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and IBM asking them to compensate authors for the use of their works. It was signed.
Other notable lawsuits
| case | explanation |
|---|---|
| Andersen v. Stability AI Ltd | A proposed class action lawsuit by visual artists against the creators of Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. |
| Kadri v. Meta Platforms, Inc. | Comedian Sarah Silverman’s proposed copyright class action lawsuit against Meta’s Llama AI model. A judge dismissed some of the claims in November. |
| Tremblay vs. OpenAI Inc. | Another lawsuit filed by Silverman alleging copyright infringement. A judge dismissed some claims in February. |
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