The Center For Investigative Reporting, America’s first non-profit news outlet and recent merger partner with Mother Jones, is taking ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Microsoft to court.a rebuke to artificial intelligence and its exploitative practices,” the CIR filed suit against the AI giant and its largest shareholder in federal court Thursday alleging that OpenAI used its published content to train AI models without the CIR’s permission or offering it compensation for doing so.
According to the filing, an analysis of OpenWebText, a dataset created by scientists from Boston University and UC Berkeley to approximate the WebText training set used to train earlier versions of ChatGPT, showed that it contained 17,434 distinct URLs from the CIR’s outlets Mother Jones and Reveal. “OpenAI and Microsoft started vacuuming up our stories to make their product more powerful, but they never asked for permission or offered compensation, unlike other organizations that license our material,” Bauerlein said. “This free rider behavior is not only unfair, it is a violation of copyright. The work of journalists, at CIR and everywhere, is valuable, and OpenAI and Microsoft know it.
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