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Friday 28 June 2024
News nonprofit sues ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Microsoft for

‘exploitative’ copyright infringement

By SARAH PARVINI and sharing news content that
MATT O’BRIEN can be used to train its AI
AP Technology Writers systems. The latest to do so
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The is Time, which announced
Center for Investigative Re- Thursday that OpenAI will
porting said Thursday it has get access to its “extensive
sued ChatGPT maker Ope- archives from the last 101
nAI and its closest business years.”
partner, Microsoft, marking OpenAI and other major AI
a new front in the news in- developers don’t typically
dustry’s fight against unau- disclose their data sources
thorized use of its content but have argued that tak-
on artificial intelligence ing troves of publicly ac-
platforms. cessible online text, images
The nonprofit, which pro- and other media to train
duces Mother Jones and their AI systems is protected
Reveal, said that OpenAI by the “fair use” doctrine
used its content without of American copyright law.
permission and without of- CIR’s lawsuit says a dataset
fering compensation, vio- that OpenAI has acknowl-
lating copyrights on the or- edged using to build an
ganization’s journalism. The earlier version of its chat-
lawsuit, filed in a New York bot technology contained
federal court, describes Copies of Mother Jones are shown in a photo taken on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, in Providence, thousands of links to the
OpenAI’s business as “built R.I. website of Mother Jones,
on the exploitation of copy- Associated Press a 48-year-old print maga-
righted works” and focuses velop that relationship with OpenAI and Microsoft ing authors such as John zine that’s been publishing
on how AI-generated sum- our work, when they no didn’t immediately re- Grisham, Jodi Picoult and online since 1993. But the
maries of articles threaten longer encounter Mother spond to requests for com- George R.R. Martin. The text used for AI training was
publishers. Jones or Reveal, then their ment Thursday. companies also face a sep- usually missing information
“It’s immensely danger- relationship is with the AI The lawsuit is the latest arate case in San Francis- about a story’s author, title
ous,” Monika Bauerlein, the tool.” against OpenAI and Mi- co’s federal court brought or copyright notice.
nonprofit’s CEO, told The That, she said, could “cut crosoft to land at Manhat- by authors including co- Last summer, more than
Associated Press. “Our exis- the entire foundation of our tan’s federal court, where median Sarah Silverman. 4,000 writers signed a let-
tence relies on users finding existence as an indepen- the companies are already Some news organizations ter to the CEOs of OpenAI
our work valuable and de- dent newsroom out from battling a series of other have chosen to collabo- and other tech companies
ciding to support it.” under us” while also threat- copyright lawsuits from rate rather than fight with accusing them of exploit-
Bauerlein said that “when ening the future of other The New York Times, other OpenAI by signing deals ative practices in building
people can no longer de- news organizations. media outlets and bestsell- to get compensated for chatbots.q

Giant sinkhole swallows the center of a soccer field built on top of

a limestone mine

ALTON, Ill. (AP) — A giant with benches and artificial (15.2 meters) deep, said just falls out from under- that it runs under the city
sinkhole has swallowed the turf at the city’s Gordon Michael Haynes, the city’s neath you,” Haynes told park where the sinkhole ap-
center of a soccer com- Moore Park. parks and recreation direc- KMOV-TV. peared.
plex that was built over an The hole is estimated to be tor. The park and roads around “The impacted area has
operating limestone mine at least 100 feet (30.5 me- “It was surreal. Kind of like it are now closed indefi- been secured and will
in southern Illinois, taking ters) wide and up to 50 feet a movie where the ground nitely. remain off limits for the
down a large light pole and New Frontier Materials Bluff foreseeable future while
leaving a gaping chasm City said the sinkhole re- inspectors and experts ex-
where squads of kids often sulted from “surface subsid- amine the mine and con-
play. But no injuries were ence” at its underground duct repairs,” Barkett said
reported after the sinkhole mine in city, located about in a statement. “We will
opened Wednesday morn- 25 miles (40 kilometers) work with the city to reme-
ing. north of St. Louis along the diate this issue as quickly
“No one was on the field at Mississippi River. and safely as possible to
the time and no one was The collapse was reported ensure minimal impact on
hurt, and that’s the most to the federal Mine Safety the community.”
important thing,” Alton and Health Administra- Haynes said he doesn’t
Mayor David Goins told The tion, as required, company know how the sinkhole will
(Alton) Telegraph. spokesman Matt Barkett be fixed but that engineers
Security video that cap- said. He told The Associat- and geologists will most
tured the hole’s sudden This photo provided by the City of Alton, Ill., shows security video ed Press the limestone mine likely be involved in deter-
formation shows a soccer of a sinkhole that opened in the middle of a soccer field on is located about 170 feet mining the stability of the
field light pole disappear- Wednesday, June 26, 2024 in Alton, Ill. (52 meters) below ground ground and surrounding
ing into the ground, along Associated Press and it’s his understanding areas.q