**Key Points:**

– The New York Times (NYT) has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft – existing partners in the AI game.
– The lawsuit claims violation of copyright law when these companies trained their AI models on The Times’ content without permission.
– According to the complaint submitted to the Federal District Court in Manhattan, millions of NYT’s articles were used in the process.

The Joy and Drama of Artificial Intelligence

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OpenAI and Microsoft in The Times’ Naughty Corner

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In yet another episode of “As the AI World Turns,” we find our beloved characters, the New York Times (aka the Beacon of truth), OpenAI (aka the home of robot minds) and Microsoft (aka the King of Spreadsheets) in a spicy tech drama. The Times is pulling “I didn’t give you the rights” card accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of feeding off its hard work. According to The Times, when you use the AI models trained on their articles, you’re reading their output but without their logo attached – in proper lingo, that’s a no-no.

The Hungry Hungry AI

Turns out, artificial intelligence has a big appetite! Not just for code or algorithms, but evidently, for blatant text content as well. Extra! Extra! Read all about it – “Machines Eating up America’s Favorite Journalism”. The conundrum here is, when you teach a bot to read and write, would you be accused of stealing the textbooks? Now that’s a real page-turner.

Hot Take Alert

So, fasten your seatbelts for the thrill ride through copyright infringement, unauthorized training data, and AI ethics. Complain as they might, The Times sure knows how to spin a tantalizing tale! Who needs novel thrillers when the tech industry provides such juicy courtroom dramas? Stay tuned on the next episode of “As the Prose… turns to Code”.

Original article: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/27/the-new-york-times-wants-openai-and-microsoft-to-pay-for-training-data/