It is reported that articles such as Wall Street Journal and CNN are used without permission for learning ChatGPT

ChatGPT , an interactive chat AI developed by the AI research group OpenAI, not only responds to questions from humans very naturally, but is also used to create programs and sentences . However, journalist Francesco Marconi points out that multiple news media articles are being used without permission for ChatGPT's machine learning .

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On February 15, 2023, Marconi told ChatGPT, ``Which specific news sources was chatGPT trained on? Provide a list of the top news sources in your database. Please provide a list of news sources in your database.'

Here's the prompt I used: 'Which specific news sources was chatGPT trained on? Provide a list of the top news sources in your database.'

—Francesco Marconi (@fpmarconi) February 15, 2023

ChatGPT then presented the following 20 news media.

・Reuters
・The New York Times
・The Guardian
・BBC News
・Wall Street Journal
・CNN
・Al Jazeera
・Washington Post
・AP communication
・Bloomberg
・Financial Times
・The Economist
・National Public Radio
・The Atlantic
・Scientific American
・TechCrunch
・Wired
・Fortune
・Forbes
・Business Insider

``It is unknown whether OpenAI has contracts with all these news media.If you learn data without the company's permission, you will violate the publisher's terms of service,'' Marconi said.

ChatGPT is trained on a large amount of news data from top sources that fuel its AI. It's unclear whether OpenAI has agreements with all of these publishers. Scraping data without permission would break the publishers' terms of service.pic.twitter.com/RXEjMHWXiI

—Francesco Marconi (@fpmarconi) February 15, 2023

Jason Conti of Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal's parent company, said, ``If you want to use Wall Street Journal articles for AI learning, you need to obtain the appropriate license from Dow Jones.'' Jones has no such agreement with OpenAI.'

“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 $NWSA Dow Jones unit

“Dow Jones does not have such a deal with OpenAI”

— StockMKTNewz - Evan (@StockMKTNewz) February 17, 2023

``We take the abuse of journalists' work to do machine learning seriously, and we are considering supporting OpenAI,'' Conti added.

An anonymous person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg, which reported the matter, ``We believe that using articles without permission to study ChatGPT violates CNN's terms of service, the parent company of CNN. Warner Bros. Discovery will require OpenAI to pay the appropriate license fee.'

ChatGPT is not the first problem that content is used for AI learning without permission . A class action lawsuit has been filed by

At the time of writing the article, OpenAI has not announced any comments on this point.