OpenAI CEO, Time Owner Benioff Disagree on AI’s Use of Copyrighted Content

  • OpenAI is negotiating with news companies to license content
  • The New York Times sued OpenAI in November over training data

Marc Benioff during an interview at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16. 

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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Marc Benioff, the Salesforce Inc. chief executive officer who also owns Time magazine, said artificial intelligence companies ripped off intellectual property to build their technology.

“All the training data has been stolen,” Benioff said Tuesday in an interview at Bloomberg House at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Content from media outlets including Time and the New York Times Co. surfaces in results from AI companies, he said.