OpenAI was hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit from five major Canadian media outlets. That is the primary case wherein a Canadian media company has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI.
Bloomberg reported on the twenty ninth (local time) that five media outlets, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, the Globe and Mail, and the Canadian Press, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI within the Superior Court of Ontario, Canada, looking for damages.
In a joint statement, Lee claimed, “Open AI infringed on copyright by collecting a considerable amount of content from Canadian media firms.”
As well as, they requested punitive damages of 20,000 Canadian dollars (roughly 28 million won) for every article illegally utilized in ‘ChatGPT’ training, saying, “They’re using the content to generate revenue without the permission of the content owner.” If the media company wins this lawsuit, OpenAI is prone to pay billions of dollars in damages.
OpenAI refuted this, saying, “We trained our model based on publicly available data in accordance with fair use and international copyright principles.” “We’re working closely with news publishers and providing publishers with a option to opt out in the event that they wish, including displaying content in ChatGPT searches, providing attribution and links,” it said.
Meanwhile, OpenAI can also be facing copyright infringement lawsuits from major media outlets, including the Latest York Times, in the US. Nonetheless, in some cases, the case was won. In early November, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Latest York dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Story and Alternet.
Also, on the nineteenth, Asian News International (ANI), an Indian news agency, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement. That is the primary AI copyright lawsuit against an American company in Asia.
Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com
