What if generative AI is illegal? The technology, which exploded into the public eye in November 2022 with ChatGPT's release, has been a boon for the stock market and talked up as a revolutionary breakthrough, but it has been in an uneasy truce with media organizations ever since. Now, almost a year later, the biggest newspaper alliance, with key members including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, has weighed in, and it is scathing.
Everyone from Hollywood actors to famed authors is scrambling to safeguard their work against the unbridled use of artificial intelligence, and news publishers argue that developers such as ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, and Google have been illegally using their copyrighted work to train chatbots.
