NYT targets Microsoft supercomputer<\/p>\n
In 2023, the NYT became the first major publisher to sue OpenAI. The prominent newspaper alleged that ChatGPT was illegally trained on its articles, infringed on its copyrights by outputting articles verbatim, and caused market harms by positioning ChatGPT as a substitute for a NYT subscription, as well as reputational harms by falsely attributing claims to NYT reporting. Additionally, ChatGPT outputs summarizing Wirecutter reviews robbed writers of commissions from lost clicks on affiliate links, the NYT alleged.<\/p>\n
In the initial complaint, the NYT discussed Microsoft\u2019s supercomputing systems as if they were providing generic cloud computing services. The updated complaint seeks to specify that the supercomputer was tailor-made to help OpenAI infringe and allege that it was built for the explicit purpose of training AI on copyrighted works without permission. And as the NYT alleged, its articles were more heavily weighted by this system, as both firms hoped to train models on the highest-quality journalism possible, so that level of writing could be confidently mimicked in outputs.<\/p>\n
By building this \u201cunusually complex\u201d machine, Microsoft not only helped select the works that were infringed but also provided a means to seize copyrighted works without permission, the NYT alleged.<\/p>\n
\u201cMicrosoft specifically designed it for the purpose of using essentially the whole Internet\u2014curated to disproportionately feature Times Works\u2014to train the most capable LLM in history,\u201d the NYT alleged.<\/p>\n
And now it\u2019s allegedly unfairly profiting.<\/p>\n
\u201cMicrosoft\u2019s deployment of Times-trained LLMs throughout its product line helped boost its market capitalization by a trillion dollars in the past year alone,\u201d the NYT alleged.<\/p>\n
Model outputs show market harms, NYT alleged<\/p>\n