Seattle Times & Newsday join forces against AI giants in high-profile lawsuit
In a move that marks another escalation in the battle between human journalists and artificial intelligence, two major news organizations have filed joint lawsuits against two of the biggest players in the industry. OpenAI and Microsoft, companies known for developing advanced language models like BERT and ChatGPT respectively, have been accused of using their journalism to train these AI systems.
The lawsuit, which was announced on Monday by Seattle Times & Newsday, claims that the tech giants are manipulating data from human journalists who work with AI tools. This allows OpenAI and Microsoft to use this training data to fine-tune their AI models, making them even more effective at generating content. The plaintiffs argue that this practice is not only unfair but also undermines the integrity of journalism as a whole.
The lawsuit comes on the heels of another high-profile complaint filed by a group of media outlets earlier this month. Human journalists from The Guardian and New York Times have joined forces to challenge OpenAI's AI training methods, claiming they are biased against certain topics and perspectives. While details of their allegations remain unclear, it is clear that the debate over AI in journalism is intensifying.