Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, December 27th, 2023.

I'm Brian McCullen today.

The New York Times has broken the seal and sued Open AI and Microsoft.

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AI space and when chips go beyond the one kilowatt barrier you need to

liquid cool them. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Well, we knew something like this was coming, we just didn't know who would fire the first

shot.

Turns out it's the New York Times, which has sued Open AI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

alleging millions of articles were used in training their AI products.

This is the first major US media organization

to sue on these grounds, quoting, well, the New York Times.

The lawsuit filed in federal district court in Manhattan contends that millions of

articles published by the Times were used to train automated chatpots that now compete with the news outlet as a source of

reliable information.

The suit does not include an exact monetary demand, but it says the defendants should be

held responsible for, quote, billions of dollars in statutory and

actual damages related to the quote unlawful copying and use of the times's

uniquely valuable works end quote. It also calls for the companies to destroy any chatbot models and training data that use copyrighted

material from the Times.

Defendants seek to free ride on the Times' massive investment in its journalism, the complaint

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