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The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement::The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with information – technology that now competes with the Times.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (13 children)

My question is how is an AI reading a bunch of articles any different from a human doing it. With this logic no one would legally be able to write an article as they are using bits of other peoples work they read that they learnt to write a good article with.

They are both making money with parts of other peoples work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the important difference in this case is like the difference between a human enjoying a song that they hear being performed vs a company recording a song that someone is performing and then replaying that song on demand for paying customers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Except, it's not replaying those song exactly,

  • not even in their entirety. It's taking a few notes from here and there, arranges them in a way what makes sense, and effectively performing a "new" song - which isn't all that different from a human artist who is "inspired" by the works of other artists and produces a new work in the same genre.
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