OpenAI responded by alleging that the Times had manipulated its products to reproduce the newspaper's content. The AI company asked the court to dismiss parts of the case, including claims that its AI-generated content infringes the Times' copyrights. The Times countered that it had only used the "first few words or sentences" of its articles to prompt OpenAI's chatbot to recreate them, and that the real issue was OpenAI's large-scale copying of its content.
Key takeaways:
- The New York Times has denied claims by OpenAI that it "hacked" the company's artificial intelligence systems to create misleading evidence of copyright infringement.
- The Times sued OpenAI and its largest financial backer Microsoft in December, accusing them of using millions of its articles without permission to train chatbots.
- OpenAI responded that the Times had paid an unnamed "hired gun" to manipulate its products into reproducing the newspaper's content and asked the court to dismiss parts of the case.
- The Times replied that it had simply used the "first few words or sentences" of its articles to prompt ChatGPT to recreate them and that OpenAI built their products by copying The Times's content on an unprecedented scale.