{"id":38820,"date":"2023-12-29T06:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T00:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=38820"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:48:12","slug":"debate-on-artificial-intelligence-and-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/debate-on-artificial-intelligence-and-copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained | Debate on Artificial Intelligence &#038; Copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>About OpenAI<\/li>\n<li>Debate over ChatGPT\u2019s Source for Data<\/li>\n<li>Reason Behind News Outlets\u2019 Decision<\/li>\n<li>News Summary<\/li>\n<li>What is NYT\u2019s main Contention against OpenAI and Microsoft?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About OpenAI<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>OpenAI is an Artificial Intelligence research company.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The company is best known for creating \u2018<strong>ChatGPT<\/strong>\u2019, which is an AI conversational chatbot.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Users can ask questions on just about anything to ChatGPT and the chatbot will respond accurately with answers, stories and essays.<\/li>\n<li>It can even help programmers write software code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Debate over ChatGPT\u2019s Source for Data<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 Software products like ChatGPT are based on what AI researchers call \u2018<strong>Large Language Models<\/strong>\u2019 (LLMs).\n<ul>\n<li>LLMs require enormous amounts of information to train their systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 If chat bots or digital assistants need to be able to understand the questions that humans throw at them, they need to study human language patterns.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Tech companies that work on LLMs like Google, Meta or OpenAI are secretive about what kind of training data they use.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Tech companies use software called \u2018<strong>crawlers<\/strong>\u2019 to scan web pages, hoover up content and put it together in a dataset that can be used to train their LLMs.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 This led to news outlets like the New York Times (NYT) voice concerns over copyright violations. The NYT and other news outlets blocked a web crawler known as <strong>GPT bot<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>Through GPT bot, OpenAI used to scrape data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The outlets told OpenAI that the<strong> company can no longer use their published material and their journalism, to train their chat bots<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Reason Behind News Outlets\u2019 Decision<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 Search engines like Google or Bing also use web crawlers to index websites and present relevant results when users search for topics.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 However, these search engines represent a mutually beneficial relationship.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Google, for instance, takes a snippet of a news article (a headline, a blurb and perhaps a couple of sentences) and reproduces them to make its search results useful.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 And while Google profits off of that content, it also directs a significant amount of user traffic to news websites.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 On the other hand, <strong>OpenAI provides no benefit, monetary or otherwise, to news companies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It simply collects publicly available data and uses it for the company\u2019s own purposes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 The New York Times (NYT) has become the first major news publisher to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, the creators of ChatGPT and other popular artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, citing \u201cunlawful\u201d use of copyrighted content.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 The lawsuit says the defendants largely scrape the NYT\u2019s original content to build their models and manufacture responses.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 The NYT <strong>accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of using content \u201cwithout payment to create products that substitute for The Times and steal audiences away from it\u201d<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft has a sizable investment in OpenAI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Earlier this year, two US authors had also sued OpenAI, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to \u201ctrain\u201d ChatGPT.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What is NYT\u2019s main Contention against OpenAI and Microsoft?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The lawsuit contends that millions of articles published by the NYT were used to train automated chatbots which now compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The publication also alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft\u2019s large language models, which power ChatGPT and Copilot, \u201ccan generate output that recites Times content verbatim, closely summarises it, and mimics its expressive style.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This \u201cundermines and damages the Times\u2019 relationship with readers, while also depriving it of \u201csubscription, licensing, advertising, and affiliate revenue.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><u>Source:<\/u><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/in-nyt-vs-openai-and-microsoft-a-larger-debate-around-ai-and-copyright-9086964\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Why The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, what it could mean for AI and copyright<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for violating Copyright 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