Major publishers, including Politico and Vox, have filed a lawsuit against AI startup Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement. They accuse the company of improperly using over 4,000 copyrighted works to train its language model without permission, and of distributing large segments of entire articles without proper attribution. The News Media Alliance organized the lawsuit, arguing that Cohere is undermining the publishers' business model. The publishers seek significant damages and aim to limit Cohere’s access to their copyrighted material, emphasizing the increasing tensions over content ownership in the AI age.
Rather than create their own content, they're stealing ours to compete with us without our permission, without compensation, and undermining our very business that feeds their machines in the first place.
The suit also says the company has engaged in trademark infringement, suggesting that the algorithm would send articles to users with proper attribution, using the publisher's name, but the article itself would be filled with hallucinated and incorrect information.
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