In December 2023, the New York Times (NYT) accused OpenAI and Microsoft of illegally using millions of articles to train chatbots. Meanwhile, OpenAI claimed that NYT hired someone to hack its product.
In a previously filed complaint, NYT said OpenAI articles’s GPT-4 version provides users with nearly verbatim excerpts from NYT’s large investment Not only that, OpenAI also took advantage of The Times in its journalism and created an alternative newspaper to the NYT.
copyright infringement allegations According to Reuters, OpenAI has asked a Manhattan federal judge (USA) to reject NYT’s famously rigorous journalistic standards OpenAI attorneys argue that the allegations in the complaint do not meet the NYT.
The company claims NYT hired someone to hack ChatGPT and trick the system into creating false evidence. Lawyers pointed out that NYT had to test tens of thousands of times to collect the unusual results given by ChatGPT.
OpenAI said NYT intentionally asked the chatbot questions that violated the company’s terms of use. Furthermore, NYT also provides articles on artificial intelligence (AI) and then asks to create similar content. ‘s actions According to OpenAI, NYT was intentional because regular users do not use ChatGPT like that.
Finally, OpenAI claims that NYT cannot prevent AI models from gathering knowledge about events, just as another news organization cannot prohibit NYT from reporting on stories that they do not participate in.
lawyer The NYT said that the hacking action described by OpenAI was simply using chatbots to search for evidence of copyright infringement. In fact, the scale of OpenAI’s copying is much larger than the 100 examples outlined in the complaint.
lawsuit The NYT is just one of the issues that OpenAI needs to resolve. According to Insider, a number of writers such as George RR Martin, Sarah Silverman, John Grisham, and thousands of others also filed a lawsuit against the company for copyright infringement