OpenAI inks from news non-profit to host more lawsuits over time.
OpNie and TIME have entered into a multi-year content agreement for the former to train its artificial intelligence models on the latter's more than a century of work.
Meanwhile, OpenAI and its partner Microsoft faced another lawsuit when they were accused of conducting early AI training using unauthorized articles.
Another charge
The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit organization that recently merged with news site Mother Jones and also hosts the news site Reveal, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on or about June 27.
According to ABC News, the lawsuit was filed in New York. In it, the plaintiff alleged that OpenAI used copyrighted material owned by the Center for Investigative Reporting to train its AI models without permission and without compensation.
Monica Bauerlin, CEO of Investigative Reporting, called the alleged use of the data to train AI “very dangerous,” according to the Associated Press.
Noting the trend toward developing new AI-generated summaries as a way for the general public to access news, Bayerlein expressed concern that such developments represent a threat to the survival of the traditional news model.
“Our survival depends on users finding our work useful and deciding to support it. When people can't develop that connection with our work, when they lose Mother Jones or Enlightenment, their relationship is with an AI tool.”
The investigative reporting lawsuit joins similar lawsuits filed by OpenAI and its partner Microsoft from the New York Times, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and others.
Related: OpenAI faces new copyright lawsuit a week after NYT lawsuit
Another partnership
Despite the company's ongoing legal battles, however, OpenAI continues to expand both operations — most recently with data analytics company Rocket — and acquire news media partnerships.
As first reported by Axios, OpenAI and News Corporation have entered into a multi-year content licensing agreement and strategic partnership.
The deal will give OpenAI access to more than a century of Time magazine and news media articles, while Time will reportedly receive AI tools and possibly financial compensation.
