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The New York Times Co (NYSE:NYT) has filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), alleging the unauthorized use of copyrighted content by AI.
Venture capitalist and SPAC sponsor Chamath Palihapitiya, along with Gene Munster from Deepwater Asset Management, shared insights on the implications of this development.
What Happened: “The interesting thing about this NYT/OpenAI lawsuit is the counterfactual,” Palihapitiya wrote on X. “If Apple is, indeed, writing substantial checks to media companies to license their content for training models, the impact of this and other lawsuits against AI companies training on non-public data will be swift and meaningful.”
He added, “A very clever move by Apple if this lawsuit goes the way of NYT.”
Kolin Koehl, an AI executive, echoed the sentiment, stating that if Apple’s actions set a precedent, it could bring about significant changes in how AI companies operate.
Palihapitiya also issued a warning for large-language model companies lacking proprietary data. “If you are a model without proprietary training data, you will have a ...