While AI can be an incredible tool for streamlining various procedures and tasks, care must be taken to ensure that it does not constitute an infringement of intellectual property.
The boom in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is a complex issue that has generated several debates and conflicts with copyrights, such as ChatGPT, which uses online content and data to train its systems.
That is why the New York Times has decided to take action by blocking OpenAI’s web crawler after the U.S. media recently updated its Terms and Conditions to prohibit unauthorized use of its content in order to prevent artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, from using such information to train and improve its algorithms.
To that end, the newspaper has disabled ChatGPT which can be verified through the New York Times .txtrobots website.
NYT’s Terms and Conditions currently state in its point 2.1 that “The content of the Services, including the site, is intended for your personal, non-commercial use. All materials published or made available on the Services are copyrighted and are owned or controlled by The New York Times Company or the party credited as The New York Times Company also owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, compilation and enhancement of such Content”.
It continues, “Non-commercial use does not include the use of Content without the prior written consent of The New York Times Company in connection with (1) the development of any software program, including, but not limited to, the training of a machine learning or Artificial Intelligence (AI) system; or (2) providing archived or cached data sets containing Content to another person or entity“.
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