NUMBER OF TOP NEWS PUBLICATIONS BLOCK OPENAI FROM ACCESSING THEIR CONTENT

Sat 26 August 2023:

The New York Times, CNN, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) are just a few of the prestigious media outlets that have blocked Microsoft-backed OpenAI from using their content to train its AI models.

The NYT banned OpenAI’s web crawler, so the Sam Altman-led business is unable to use the newspaper’s material to train its AI models, according to The Verge.

The GPTBot web crawler from OpenAI may scan online pages in order to improve the AI models.

“Allowing GPTBot to access your site can help AI models become more accurate and improve their general capabilities and safety,” according to OpenAI.

The NYT updated its terms of service at the beginning of this month to prohibit the use of its content to train AI models.

CNN confirmed to Guardian Australia that it blocked GPTBot across its digital assets.

Some other news publications like the Chicago Tribune and Australian Community Media (ACM) brands have also reportedly blocked OpenAI’s web crawler.

The NYT is also examining its legal options to defend the reporting’s intellectual property rights by suing Microsoft-backed OpenAI.

Negotiations between the publisher and OpenAI to strike a licensing agreement, under which OpenAI would compensate NYT for using its stories in its artificial intelligence (AI) tools, have been heated, according to NPR.

However, the discussions “have become so contentious that the paper is now considering legal action”.

A lawsuit against OpenAI would set up the most high-profile legal battle yet over copyright protection in the generative AI era.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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