Excerpt: The Times is the first major American media organization to sue the companies, the creators of ChatGPT and other popular A.I. platforms, over copyright issues associated with its written works. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, contends that millions of articles published by The Times were used to train automated chatbots that now compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information. The suit does not include an exact monetary demand. But it says the defendants should be held responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.” It also calls for the companies to destroy any chatbot models and training data that use copyrighted material from The Times. In its complaint, The Times said it approached Microsoft and OpenAI in April to raise concerns about the use of its intellectual property and explore “an amicable resolution,” possibly involving a commercial agreement and “technological guardrails” around generative A.I. products. But it said the talks had not produced a resolution. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Nytimes needs to stop being a massive crybaby and just take one for the team. This isn’t about the nytimes. This isn’t about their articles or their “journalism.” Far beyond them, this is about advancing humanity as a whole and building a whole new human consciousness and intelligence. No one gives a fuck about them. We are literally on the cusp of a new millennium at the cost of, what, a few articles no one cares about? And they want to press the stop button because of it. What a fucking joke
Is me reading a NYT article and storing the data in my brain a copyright infringement now?
What a dumb take
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The first of many. Our jobs will not be lost to LLM so soon.
Unless of course we train copilot to defend us in the lawsuit.