A New York Times lawsuit challenges the AI practice of copying scores of articles for use in training a chatbot to converse on any topic. Copying Times stories and posting them on a website would violate copyright, but is it also a copyright violation to use the training of chatbot? (The Washington Post, January 4, 2024. by Will Oremus and Elahe Izadi)
OpenAI is negotiating with media outlets offering paltry sums, between $1 to 5 Million annually, for access to their news articles. (The Information, January 4, 2024, by Sahil Patel and Stephanie Palazzolo)