The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies.
星期三，紐約時代報對Open AI及微軟提起侵害著作權訴訟，就非授權利用已出版之著作去訓練人工智慧技術開啟一個漸漸激烈法律戰之新先鋒。
The Times is the first major American media organization to sue the companies, the creators of ChatGPT and other popular A.I. platforms, over copyright issues associated with its written works. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, contends that millions of articles published by The Times were used to train automated chatbots that now compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information.
紐約時代報是首個主要美國媒體對公司起訴侵害著作權之公司，該訴訟在曼哈頓聯邦地區法院提起，時代報主張由其出版數百萬計的文章被該公司等利用於訓練聊天機器人，使得變成當今與之匹敵競爭而被當可信賴消息來源之新聞通路。
The suit does not include an exact monetary demand. But it says the defendants should be held responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.” It also calls for the companies to destroy any chatbot models and training data that use copyrighted material from The Times.
該訴訟並未明述一個精確的損害賠償金額。但據說被告應會對有關非法重製及利用時代報裏特殊有價值著作之行為，賠償數10億的法定及實際損害金。
In its complaint, The Times said it approached Microsoft and OpenAI in April to raise concerns about the use of its intellectual property and explore “an amicable resolution,” possibly involving a commercial agreement and “technological guardrails” around generative A.I. products. But it said the talks had not produced a resolution.
於其訴狀中提到，時代報四月份時曾與微軟及Open AI聯繫，就利用到時代報的智慧財產一事提出關切，同時謀求「和平解決方案」，其可能牽涉圍繞在AI生成產品的商業協定與技術護欄˙。但其說到該會晤未有共識決。
An OpenAI spokeswoman, Lindsey Held, said in a statement that the company had been “moving forward constructively” in conversations with The Times and that it was “surprised and disappointed” by the lawsuit.
“We respect the rights of content creators and owners and are committed to working with them to ensure they benefit from A.I. technology and new revenue models,” Ms. Held said. “We’re hopeful that we will find a mutually beneficial way to work together, as we are doing with many other publishers.”
Microsoft declined to comment on the case.
The lawsuit could test the emerging legal contours of generative A.I. technologies — so called for the text, images and other content they can create after learning from large data sets — and could carry major implications for the news industry. The Times is among a small number of outlets that have built successful business models from online journalism, but dozens of newspapers and magazines have been hobbled by readers’ migration to the internet.
