Ziff Davis and IGN sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
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Media companies Ziff Davis, IGN Entertainment and Everyday Health Media have sued AI firm Open AI for copyright infringement, alleging breaches of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, unjust enrichment, and trademark dilution, among other things.
Open AI has been accused of copying text from the companies’ websites and apps without permission, removing copyright data and claiming the work as its own.
In a statement, Open AI said its models “empower innovation” and are “trained on publicly available data and grounded in fair use”.
Each year, Ziff Davis produces 2 million articles and updates, and owns the exclusive rights to 5,000 product reviews.
The company alleges that Open AI trained its models on its work, in spite of instructions not to scrape data from its website.