Newly unsealed filings in the copyright lawsuit led by The New York Times against Microsoft and OpenAI show that people inside both companies did discuss the risk that using news content to build chatbots could hurt publishers.<\/p>\n\n
The filings quote Microsoft researcher Brent Hecht calling mass scraping for AI training \u201can astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions\u201d<\/strong>, possibly \u201cthe largest theft of labor in human history,\u201d and saying it made fair use \u201ca complete mockery.\u201d They also say OpenAI executive Nick Turley warned of an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to publishers, and that a Microsoft document described a chatbot \u201cdoom loop\u201d in which traffic dries up for the same news sites supplying the source material.<\/p>\n\n Publishers say that loop is already underway. According to the filings, Microsoft recorded click-through-rate drops<\/strong> of 83% to 93% for some plaintiffs and 51% to 94% for others, putting subscriptions, ad impressions, and revenue at risk. Microsoft and OpenAI still argue that training and outputs can qualify as fair use. Publishers disagree, especially when millions of articles are used without permission. Separately, the U.S. Department of Justice has said that some copyright training can be lawful.<\/p>\n\n If you follow AI search or publishing, this is a case to keep watching. The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI in December 2023<\/strong>, other publishers and authors have filed similar claims, OpenAI has signed deals that include a reported $250 million partnership with News Corp, and Google is testing pay-per-value licensing.<\/p>\n\n You can track the case through the newly unsealed federal court filings.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Newly unsealed filings in the copyright lawsuit led by The New York Times against Microsoft and OpenAI show that people inside both companies did discuss the risk that using news content to build chatbots could hurt publishers. The filings quote Microsoft researcher Brent Hecht calling mass scraping for AI training \u201can astonishing theft of unprecedented … Continue reading “Microsoft filings surface: internal warning on chatbot news scraping”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9349,"featured_media":378280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6771],"class_list":["post-378281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-ai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378282,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378281\/revisions\/378282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378281"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=378281"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=378281"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=378281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}