OpenAI defeats news outlets’ copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now

I came across this interesting article that neatly ties into what the class has covered on Copyright in the last few classes. I find the New York district court has ruled in an unfortunate way, as it seems that AI-learning algorithms can seemingly circumvent traditional copyright protections. It seems that at least in the state of New York, AI models are permitted to use publicly available news articles to train their AI language models, without needing prior permission from the copyright holders of the news articles. OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT was trained using thousands of news articles from the news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet, without prior permission. In my opinion, this use of copyrighted materials goes far beyond the boundaries of fair use, as ChatGPT ‘s business model relies on cheaply reproducing copyrighted content to produce its chat responses.

Link to the article: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-defeats-news-outlets-copyright-lawsuit-over-ai-training-now-2024-11-07/