Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train its artificial intelligence tool without paying them. From a report: “Anyone who wants to use the work of Wall Street Journal journalists to train artificial intelligence should be properly licensing the rights to do so from Dow Jones,” Jason Conti, general counsel for News Corp’s Dow Jones unit, said in a statement provided to Bloomberg News. “Dow Jones does not have such a deal with OpenAI.” Conti added: “We take the misuse of our journalists’ work seriously, and are reviewing this situation.” The news groups’ concerns arose when the computational journalist Francesco Marconi posted a tweet last week saying their work was being used to train ChatGPT. Marconi said he asked the chatbot for a list of news sources it was trained on and received a response naming 20 outlets including the WSJ, New York Times, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Reuters, CNN and TechCrunch.

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