Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI over use of metadata in AI training

By Blake Brittain

March ‌10 (Reuters) - Nielsen's ​Gracenote, ​which creates metadata that identifies movies, TV programs and other media, sued OpenAI in Manhattan ‌federal court on Tuesday, alleging that its work was ⁠used without permission to train artificial intelligence.

* Gracenote said in ‌the complaint that OpenAI ‌misused itscopyrighted material to train ChatGPT to reproduce its contentdescriptions and identifiers. * An OpenAI spokesperson said the ​company's AI models"empower innovation, and are trained on publicly available dataand grounded in fair use." * Gracenote ⁠CEO Jared Grusd said in a statement that OpenAI"chose to use decades ​of our proprietary work without permissionto build and sell its models" * Gracenote requested an ​unspecified amount of monetarydamages and a ‌court order blocking OpenAI from using its data. * Gracenote said it employs more than ⁠1,000 editors who"painstakingly source, ingest, aggregate, research, edit, write,curate, and link content" for its database of shows and movies. * ⁠The lawsuit says Gracenote was able to prompt ChatGPT tocreate ​copies of its identifiers and descriptions of populartelevision shows including "Breaking Bad," "Game of Thrones,""The Office" and "Saturday Night Live," indicating that OpenAIused them ‌in its training. * Gracenote has traditionally licensed its metadata to mediadistributors. The complaint ‌also says it licenses its materialto other AI providers ⁠for their training. It ‌alleges thatOpenAI's use ​of Gracenote's content threatens to undercut bothmarkets.

(Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington; Editing by Edmund ‌Klamann)

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