It seems the law is finally catching up to AI companies such as Meta, Alphabet, and OpenAI, as several lawsuits have been filed in recent months aimed at the companies behind some of the largest LLMs. One such lawsuit, filed by Ziff Davis, is aimed directly at ChatGPT, and how its way of “training” its data is a form of copyright infringement, while also citing its inability to accurately generate answers for queries about Red Dead Redemption 2cheats.
The lawsuit was filed on April 24, Thursday, as reported by The New York Times. The publisher, which owns several websites, including IGN and Eurogamer, alleges that OpenAI is copying the work of Ziff Davis’ websites to provide information.
Ziff Davis then reproduced an article about Dragon Age: The Veilguard by Eurogamer in November 2024 using ChatGPT. Also, as part of the lawsuit, Ziff Davis claims that ChatGPT has a tendency to cite old information, provide the wrong answers, and refuse to credit where it got its answers from.
According to Ziff Davis’ lawyers, ChatGPT is unable to provide free-money cheat codes for Red Dead Redemption 2 when asked, claiming that no such cheats exis,t even when specifically asked to cite Eurogamer.
Of course, if you just click here on our cheats page, you’ll find that there are cheat codes in Red Dead Redemption 2 that indeed give you free money, among other things.
Considering that the lawsuit was only recently filed, we won’t know for a while what will come of it or if OpenAI will settle with Ziff Davis.
However, the allegations against OpenAI by Ziff Davis might just be the start. Google is currently facing multiple copyright lawsuits for its alleged use of copyrighted material to train Gemini and its Imagen AI model without permission. On the other hand, Meta is also being sued for using books, articles, and other copyrighted content to train its AI models, with there being proof that Meta willingly used pirated material.
With that said, it will be interesting to see who the law will side with on this one. Video game media websites like those owned by Ziff Davis, and of course, yours truly, are only able to stay online because readers go to us and read what we have to write about. We’re then incentivized via ads to make sure the content we’re providing via our news, guides, and tips is accurate. If it’s not, then readers will go to other websites that actually took the time to fact-check their information.
But what happens if traffic no longer flows to websites like ours? With ChatGPT and pretty much every other LLM at the moment, unless you specifically ask it for its sources, it won’t tell you the original source of the information. Your only choice is then to trust that it’s accurate, which, as Ziff Davis has proven, isn’t always the case.
It’s an ongoing problem that has yet to be answered and is ultimately out of our hands – much like how it’s on Rockstar Games to take note of Red Dead Redemption 2 remaining just as popular today despite lacking a much-needed FPS update for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X.
