{"id":6547,"date":"2026-09-04T21:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2026-09-04T21:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:04:54","slug":"microsoft-openai-new-york-times-authors-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=6547","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Microsoft\u2019s Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/12\/27\/24016212\/new-york-times-openai-microsoft-lawsuit-copyright-infringement\">publishers including <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/693516\/authors-throw-the-book-at-microsoft-ai\">book authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">As part of the lawsuit\u2019s discovery, Microsoft provided 8.2 million Copilot chat logs to an expert hired by news publishers. The logs, it claims, were specifically chosen \u201cbecause they hit on keywords implicating use of News Plaintiffs\u2019 websites, and therefore the most likely to contain News Plaintiffs\u2019 works.\u201d It says the resulting analysis shows that 59,545 of these contained at least 16 words in common with news content used to ground the AI model. An expert for the Center for Investigative Reporting found 51 instances of \u201csubstantial overlap\u201d with CIR work in the dataset, Microsoft says. Similarly, an expert in the authors\u2019 suit found that the 8.2 million conversations with Copilot only had 24 responses that contained at least 30 matching words. Only 10 of the 212 books evaluated had any matches, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/67810584\/1211\/authors-guild-v-openai-inc\/\">Microsoft claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The<em> Times<\/em> disagreed with Microsoft\u2019s conclusions. \u201cThe documents and testimony uncovered during discovery lead to only one conclusion: Microsoft and OpenAI stole from The New York Times to make commercial products that substitute for its journalism, threaten its business, and undermine its industry,\u201d the <em>Times<\/em>\u2019 lead counsel Ian Crosby said in a statement. \u201cWe look forward to Microsoft and OpenAI being held accountable for their theft.\u201d CIR, and Authors Guild did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Microsoft argues that the numbers bolster its case that using copyrighted content for AI training datasets should be considered fair use. While systems like Copilot rely on using copyrighted material, it says, the resulting systems are used for significantly different purposes than the original. The fact that they sometimes reproduce sections of text, it concludes, \u201chardly undermines the transformative purpose of LLM training.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The filings were made as part of a legal battle brought by publishers and authors against Microsoft and OpenAI, which the plaintiffs claim built products on their works and now compete with them directly, in part by regurgitating copyrighted content. The news publishers\u2019 and books authors\u2019 claims were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/apr\/04\/us-authors-copyright-lawsuits-against-openai-and-microsoft-combined-in-new-york-with-newspaper-actions\">consolidated under one judge<\/a> to streamline the process, despite objections from the publishers and authors. Microsoft submitted its filing on Friday as it argues for the judge to issue a summary judgement, which would end the case at an early stage. (The Trump administration also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/988344\/trump-administration-new-york-times-openai-lawsuit\">filed a statement of interest<\/a> in the <em>New York Times<\/em> case this week, supporting OpenAI.) If the judge sides with the publishers and authors, the legal battle will continue in court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/990267\/microsoft-openai-new-york-times-authors-lawsuit\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times and book authors. 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