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Two more authors have sued Microsoft and OpenAI for using their work to train artificial intelligence models without their permission.
Writers Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage filed a suit in Manhattan federal court on Friday, Reuters reports. In the duo's proposed class-action suit, the writers claim that the companies copied their work “to build a massive commercial enterprise that is now valued at billions of dollars.” And that they “engaged in a massive and deliberate theft of copyrighted works.”
This is the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against Microsoft and OpenAI. In November, a similar lawsuit was filed in the same court by author Julian Sancton which was the first to sue both OpenAI and Microsoft. Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI and uses OpenAI’s technology to power its AI product, Copilot.
Late last month The New York Times also sued both Microsoft and OpenAI claiming that its content was used to train the company’s AI models without permission or compensation to the paper and that the AI tools “can generate output that recites Times content verbatim, closely summarizes it, and mimics its expressive style.”
Despite all the recent suits, not every publication is against the idea of their content being used to train AI models. The Associated Press, for instance, has given OpenAI access to its news stories for the next two years to train AI, and Politico and Business Insider also struck deals with the companies to use content from their sites to train future.