New York Times’ blockbuster suit could decide the fate of genAI

Here come the lawyers.

Last week, the New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, in which Microsoft has invested $13 billion and counting, for copyright violations. The Times claims Microsoft’s genAI-based Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which powers Copilot, were trained using millions of articles without the Times’s permission.

It goes on to argue that those tools (and Microsoft’s search engine, Bing) “now compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information.”

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