[Music] in a case that's making headlines rather than reporting them eight major newspapers including the New York daily news Chicago Tribune and Denver Post have launched a lawsuit against open Ai and Microsoft the papers all owned by Alden Global Capital accused the tech Giants of using millions of their copyrighted articles without permission to train sophisticated large language models like open ai's chat GPT and Microsoft's co-pilot the newspapers claimed these tech companies use their content without permission to power AI products that directly compete with traditional media by replicating and distributing their journalistic work this includes cases where AI models generate content that's either identical or barely modified from the original articles the suit also claims that the AI systems can generate errors or hallucinations attributing false information to these newspapers damaging their reputations and potentially spreading misinformation in response to the legal challenges some news organizations have formed licensing agreements with AI companies the financial times announced this week a deal allowing open AI to use its content in response to chat GPT queries the Associated Press and axel Springer have secured similar agreements to license their content for AI usage in a statement open AI emphasize their commitment to collaborating with news organizations to address concerns and explore benefit beneficial opportunities involving AI tools the lawsuit Echoes a similar case brought by the New York Times in December accusing open AI of using stolen content to train its AI open AI has defended its practices claiming that using publicly available data such as news articles for training is legally permissible under fair use [Music]