科技英语：OpenAI被起诉！

一个由主要新闻出版商组成的联盟对 Microsoft 和 OpenAI 提起诉讼，指控这两家科技巨头在未经许可或付款的情况下非法使用受版权保护的文章来训练他们的生成式 AI 模型。

First reported by The Verge, the group of eight publications owned by Alden Global Capital (AGC) – including the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, and Orlando Sentinel – allege the companies have purloined “millions” of their articles without permission and without payment “to fuel the commercialisation of their generative artificial intelligence products, including ChatGPT and Copilot.”
奥尔登全球资本 (AGC) 旗下的八家出版物（包括《芝加哥论坛报》、《纽约每日新闻》和《奥兰多前哨报》）最先由 The Verge 报道，声称这些公司在未经许可且未付款的情况下窃取了“数百万”篇文章 “推动其生成人工智能产品的商业化，包括 ChatGPT 和 Copilot。”

The lawsuit is the latest legal action taken against Microsoft and OpenAI over their alleged misuse of copyrighted content to build large language models (LLMs) that power AI technologies like ChatGPT. In the complaint, the AGC publications claim the companies’ chatbots can reproduce their articles verbatim shortly after publication, without providing prominent links back to the original sources.
该诉讼是针对 Microsoft 和 OpenAI 采取的最新法律行动，指控它们滥用受版权保护的内容来构建为 ChatGPT 等人工智能技术提供支持的大型语言模型 (LLM)。 在诉状中，AGC 出版物声称，这些公司的聊天机器人可以在文章发表后不久逐字复制其文章，而无需提供返回原始来源的显着链接。

“This lawsuit is not a battle between new technology and old technology. It is not a battle between a thriving industry and an industry in transition. It is most surely not a battle to resolve the phalanx of social, political, moral, and economic issues that GenAI raises,” the complaint reads.
“这场诉讼不是新技术与旧技术之间的战斗。 这不是一个蓬勃发展的行业和一个转型中的行业之间的战斗。 这肯定不是一场解决 GenAI 提出的社会、政治、道德和经济问题的战斗，”诉状写道。

“This lawsuit is about how Microsoft and OpenAI are not entitled to use copyrighted newspaper content to build their new trillion-dollar enterprises without paying for that content.”
“这起诉讼是关于微软和 OpenAI 如何无权使用受版权保护的报纸内容来建立其新的万亿美元企业而不支付该内容的费用。”

The plaintiffs also accuse the AI models of “hallucinations,” attributing inaccurate reporting to their publications. They reference OpenAI’s previous admission that it would be “impossible” to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials.
原告还指责人工智能模型存在“幻觉”，将不准确的报告归咎于他们的出版物。 他们引用了 OpenAI 之前的说法，即如果不使用受版权保护的材料，“不可能”训练当今领先的人工智能模型。

The allegations echo those made by The New York Times in a separate lawsuit filed last year. The Times claimed Microsoft and OpenAI used almost a century’s worth of copyrighted content to allow their AI to mimic its expressive style without a licensing agreement.
这些指控与《纽约时报》去年在另一起诉讼中提出的指控相呼应。 《泰晤士报》声称，微软和 OpenAI 使用了近一个世纪的受版权保护的内容，让他们的人工智能在没有许可协议的情况下模仿其表达风格。

In seeking to dismiss key parts of the Times’ lawsuit, Microsoft accused the paper of “doomsday futurology” by suggesting generative AI could threaten independent journalism.
为了驳回《纽约时报》诉讼的关键部分，微软指责该报纸是“末日未来学”，暗示生成人工智能可能威胁独立新闻业。

The AGC publications argue that OpenAI, now valued at $90 billion after becoming a for-profit company, and Microsoft – which has seen hundreds of billions of dollars added to its market value from ChatGPT and Copilot – are profiting from the unauthorised use of copyrighted works.
AGC 出版物认为，OpenAI 在成为一家营利性公司后估值现已达到 900 亿美元，而微软（ChatGPT 和 Copilot 使其市值增加了数千亿美元）正在从未经授权使用版权作品中获利。 。

The news publishers are seeking unspecified damages and an order for Microsoft and OpenAI to destroy any GPT and LLM models utilising their copyrighted content.
新闻出版商正在寻求未具体说明的损害赔偿，并要求微软和 OpenAI 销毁任何利用其版权内容的 GPT 和 LLM 模型。

Earlier this week, OpenAI signed a licensing partnership with The Financial Times to lawfully integrate the newspaper’s journalism. However, the latest lawsuit from AGC highlights the growing tensions between tech companies developing generative AI and content creators concerned about the unchecked use of their works to train profitable AI systems.
本周早些时候，OpenAI 与《金融时报》签署了许可合作伙伴关系，以合法整合该报纸的新闻报道。 然而，AGC 的最新诉讼突显了开发生成式人工智能的科技公司与内容创作者之间日益紧张的关系，内容创作者担心他们的作品不受限制地用于训练可盈利的人工智能系统。