Microsoft Executives Voiced Concern Over OpenAI Training on Paywalled Articles
Microsoft executives raised legal concerns about OpenAI's use of paywalled publisher articles to train its models, according to people familiar with the matter. The articles in question generally require paid subscriptions to access. Despite those concerns, OpenAI continued the practice, which sits within a broader content-use dispute between the artificial intelligence company and multiple publishers.
The matter concerns content use between OpenAI and several publishers whose articles are typically accessible only through paid subscriptions.
The discussions took place during OpenAI's use of those articles to train its models. Microsoft executives had previously expressed legal concerns about the same category of content use. OpenAI nonetheless continued the practice.
Why this event matters
The event has a measured impact on 2 industrys. The strongest current signal is mixed for Artificial Intelligence, with intensity 60/100 and 70% confidence over a medium term horizon.
Artificial Intelligence
- Direction
- mixed
- Intensity
- 60
- Confidence
- 70%
- Horizon
- Medium term
Publishing & Broadcasting
- Direction
- positive
- Intensity
- 50
- Confidence
- 60%
- Horizon
- Medium term
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