OpenAI asks to use copyrighted works for free; newspapers, writers complain

ChatGPT company OpenAI reportedly pleaded to the British parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works for free.

OpenAI told a committee that it was “impossible” to train its artificial intelligence model without using such data.

“Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression – including blog posts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents – it would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials,” OpenAI said, according to The Telegraph.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI tool has become popular since its launch in November 2022 as a language model capable of understanding and generating human-like responses to a wide range of user queries.

However, since ChatGPT’s launch, several companies such as The New York Times as well as celebrities and authors like Sarah Silverman, Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and George RR Martin have sued the AI firm for using their text without permission to train the AI system.