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In recent times, there has been growing concern about the unauthorized use of copyrighted content in the training of generative artificial intelligences, such as GitHub Copilot, Stable Diffusion, and ChatGPT. Some content and code creators have filed lawsuits against companies that train their AIs with their data without their consent or remuneration. In this regard, Jason Conti, general counsel of the Dow Jones division at News Corp., has stated that those who wish to use the work of Wall Street Journal journalists to train artificial intelligences should properly license the rights to do so. According to Bloomberg, this executive has made it clear that they take misuse of their journalists’ work very seriously and are reviewing the situation.
In particular, one journalist asked ChatGPT about their sources, which included both the WSJ and CNN. The WSJ, which enforces a very stringent paywall, is a particularly worrisome case in point. In addition, sources close to CNN have also reported that this media outlet believes ChatGPT is violating its terms of service by being trained on data collected from its articles. In the past, media outlets faced a similar situation with the famous “Google Tax,” where link aggregators such as Google News had to pay the authors of the content they linked to due to the Intellectual Property Law.
