Several of the nation’s leading news outlets prevent OpenAI from accessing their content

The New York Times, CNN, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) are just a few of the prestigious media outlets that have forbidden Microsoft-backed OpenAI from using their material to train its AI models.

The NYT banned OpenAI’s web crawler, so the Sam Altman-led business is unable to utilize the newspaper’s material to train its AI models, according to The Verge.

The GPTBot web crawler from OpenAI may scan online pages to enhance the AI models.

According to OpenAI, allowing GPTBot access to your website “can help AI models become more accurate and improve their overall capabilities and safety.”

Beginning this month, The New York Times changed its terms of service to forbid using its content to train AI systems.

CNN acknowledged blocking GPTBot across all of its digital properties to the Guardian Australia.

According to reports, several other news organizations have also restricted OpenAI’s web crawler, including the Chicago Tribune and Australian Community Media (ACM) brands.

The NYT is also examining its legal options to defend the reporting’s intellectual property rights by suing Microsoft-backed OpenAI.

Negotiations between the publisher and OpenAI to strike a license agreement, under which OpenAI would compensate NYT for using its articles in its artificial intelligence (AI) tools, have been heated, according to NPR.

However, “the paper is now considering legal action because the discussions have grown so contentious.”

The most publicized legal conflict about copyright protection in the age of generative AI would begin with a lawsuit against OpenAI.