In one of the more common conflicts in modern AI, Ziff Davis, IGN Entertainment, and Everyday Health Media sued open AI for copyright infringement.
The lawsuit from a media company filed claims of copyright infringement, violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), unfair enrichment and trademark dilution. IGN and Daily Health Media are in Ziff Davis’ division.
Ziff Davis said, “Openai intentionally and relentlessly reproduced accurate copies and created a derivative of Ziff Davis Works without the approval of Ziff Davis.
The lawsuit stated that Openai intentionally copied the text on Ziff Davis’s website without permission and violated Ziff Davis’ written request. It also said Openai stripped Ziff Davis Works of copyright management information. And it claims that open AI will pass this work on as its own. The lawsuit Openai incorrectly attributes the output to Ziff Davis, not Ziff Davis’s content.
A spokesman for Openai said, “ChatGpt will help improve human creativity, advance scientific discovery and medical research, enabling hundreds of millions of people to improve their daily lives. Our model is based on justice, training in publicly available data.”
Research Library Association It provides some context regarding the conflict.
Ziff Davis has been publishing high-quality journalism for nearly 100 years and said it has grown from its roots from popular aviation publishers to its current stewardship of over 45 diverse digital media publications and internet brands, including IGN, Mashable, CNET, ZDNET, PCMAG, LifeHacker, BabyCenter and everyday health.
Every year, Ziff Davis creates nearly 2 million new articles and article updates, including over 5,000 product reviews.
Ziff Davis also claims Openai trained an AI model in its work, despite Ziff Davis telling Web Crawlers not to rub that data Use the robots.txt file.
