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New York Times bans OpenAI’s GPTbot from using its content to train AI
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New York Times bans OpenAI’s GPTbot from using its content to train AI

[ad_1] Last week, reports emerged that the New York Times may take legal action against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI as its AI models allegedly use content published on the website, which is NYT's intellectual property, to train its AI models. While that may not have happened so far, the major news publisher has now decided to ban OpenAI's web crawler from viewing content on its website. The move means that the website's content cannot be used to train any of OpenAI's AI foundational models.As per a report by The Verge, NYT has blocked OpenAI's web crawler GPTbot from searching and indexing the contents of the website. The report highlights the robot.txt page of the publication which clearly shows that the bot has been disallowed. Using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine that lets users...
New York Times may sue OpenAI over copyright violations by ChatGPT
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New York Times may sue OpenAI over copyright violations by ChatGPT

[ad_1] The battle between artificial intelligence (AI) and people in creative fields has been ongoing for some time. In the US, actors and writers working in Hollywood have been on strike to limit the usage of AI as they may lose their jobs. Even authors have joined the cause by submitting an open letter to corporations involved in developing these AI tools requesting them to pay fair compensation for using their work as “food” for AI. And now, reports have emerged that a major news publisher New York Times may take legal action against OpenAI, the developer of the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT.According to a report by NPR, “Lawyers for the newspaper are exploring whether to sue OpenAI to protect the intellectual property rights associated with its reporting, according to two people with d...