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Kevin Okemwa

A multitude of publishers slam Microsoft and OpenAI with a copyright infringement suit, but Sam Altman already admitted tools like ChatGPT couldn't exist without copyrighted content

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What you need to know

  • Microsoft and OpenAI have been slapped with a lawsuit filed by eight news publishers over copyright infringement issues.
  • Copilot and ChatGPT have been spotted reusing content belonging to the publishers without permission, generating incorrect information, and attributing the sites as the source.
  • Both companies are still battling several lawsuits in court over copyright-related issues, but OpenAI's Sam Altman admitted that it's impossible to develop ChatGPT-like tools without copyrighted content.
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