OpenAI Sued By Owners Of Dozens Of Media For Copying Work Without Permit

OpenAI is sued by the media owner (photo: dock. unsplash)

JAKARTA OpenAI is facing a new lawsuit over allegations of copyright infringement. The company was sued by Ziff Davis, owner of several digital media such as CNET, PCMag, IGN, and Everyday Health.

First reported by The New York Times, Davis accused OpenAI of making a precise copy of his media work without permission. According to Davis, this copying was carried out 'deliberately and relentlessly' to harm his company.

Davis also stated that OpenAI trains the Artificial Intelligence (AI) model with content the company created. Not only that, OpenAI is believed to remove copyright information from various content it takes and learns.

Davis stressed that the AI company had 'realized, reproduced, and kept' its media papers to make a response on the ChatGPT. So far, hundreds of copies of the text have been found.

"(we) have identified hundreds of complete copies of Ziff Davis Works' contents in just a small sample of OpenAI WebText datasets published," the lawsuit read.

This is one of the biggest publisher lawsuits OpenAI has ever faced. The reason is, Davis is the owner of 45 media with a total of 3,800 employees. Davis also did not sign a content license agreement with OpenAI.

In contrast, Davis joined the New York Times, Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet, and media group in Canada to post the AI company. Through this lawsuit, Davis hopes that the court can side with the media.

By stealing media-made content, OpenAI is considered to have exploited the writers. Therefore, Davis asked the court to stop OpenAI's acts of exploitation and destroy data sets or models that contain its content.