{"id":1403,"date":"2024-02-15T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2025-11-08T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:37:20","slug":"ai-lawsuit-by-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"AI Lawsuit by the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/defiant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/newspap-270x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/newspap-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/newspap-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/newspap.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New York Times has filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/nytco-assets.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/NYT_Complaint_Dec2023.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a> against Microsoft and OpenAI alleging that their generative AI systems, including Copilot\/Bing Chat and ChatGPT, infringe on the Times&#8217; copyrighted articles by copying and using them without permission to train the AI models. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Times&#8217; key points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Times invests heavily in producing quality journalism that is valuable to democracy and the public. Microsoft and OpenAI have unfairly free-ridden on this investment by feeding Times articles into their AI systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copilot\/Bing Chat and ChatGPT output can recite Times content verbatim, closely summarize it, mimic its style, and falsely attribute information to the Times. This competes with and threatens the Times.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microsoft and OpenAI have refused to properly license Times content and pay fair value for using it, despite months of negotiations. Their &#8220;fair use&#8221; defense of using the content to train AI models is invalid since the AI competes with and displaces the Times.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The copying has been hugely lucrative for Microsoft and OpenAI, boosting valuations. But it has damaged the Times by undermining its readership and revenue streams.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The lawsuit seeks to hold Microsoft and OpenAI accountable under copyright law for billions in damages from their unauthorized competitive use of Times articles over several years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/defiant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/newspap72.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4579\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of this writing, the defendants have not responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI alleging that their generative AI systems, including Copilot\/Bing Chat and ChatGPT, infringe on the Times&#8217; copyrighted articles by copying and using them without permission to train the AI models. The Times&#8217; key points: As of this writing, the defendants have not responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,11,57],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-intellectual-property","category-technology","tag-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/4615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}