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The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with information – technology that now competes with the Times.

The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement::The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with information – technology that now competes with the Times.

  • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Let me ask you this: when have you ever seen ChatGPT cite its sources and give appropriate credit to the original author?

    Bing chat now does that by default. Normally you have to prompt that manually.

    If I were to just read the NYT and make money by simply summarizing articles and posting those summaries on my own website without adding anything to it like my own commentary and without giving credit to the author, that would rightfully be considered plagiarism.

    No. It would be considered journalism. If you read the news a bit, you will find that they reference the output of other news corporations quite a bit. If your preferred news source does not do that, then they simply don’t cite their sources.

    • JonEFive@midwest.socialEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      Prompting for a source wouldn’t satisfy me until I could trust that the AI wasn’t hallucinating. After all, if GPT can make up facts about things like legal precedent or well documented events, why would I trust that its citations are legitimate?

      And if the suggestion is that the person asking for the information double check the cited sources, maybe that’s reasonable to request, but it somewhat defeats the original purpose.

      Bing might be doing things differently though, so you might be right in your assessment on that front. I haven’t played with their AI yet.

      • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        You did ask if ChatGPT had ever sighted sources. Bing uses it and besides, you can ask for that manually.

        Whether it defeats the purpose depends on your original purpose.