Microsoft Seeks to Dismiss Part of New York Times’s ‘Doomsday’ Copyright Lawsuit

Microsoft has responded to a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the New York Times over alleged use of content to train generative artificial intelligence, calling the claim a false narrative of “doomsday futurology”. The tech giant said the lawsuit was near-sighted and akin to Hollywood’s losing backlash against the VCR.

In a motion to dismiss part of the lawsuit filed on Monday, Microsoft, which was sued in December alongside ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, scoffed at the newspaper’s claim that Times content receives “particular emphasis” and that tech companies “seek to free-ride on the Times’s massive investment in its journalism”.

In the lawsuit – which could have major implications for the future of generative artificial intelligence and for news-content production – the Times alleged that Microsoft, which is OpenAI’s biggest investor, had unlawfully used the paper’s “copyrighted news articles, in-depth investigations, opinion pieces, reviews, how-to guides, and more” to create artificial intelligence products that “threatens The Times’s ability to provide that service”.

Read the source article at The Guardian