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OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT

Feb 28, 2024 - theregister.com
OpenAI is accused by The New York Times (NYT) of using its articles to train its language models without permission, and of enabling users to bypass the newspaper's paywall by asking the chatbot to reproduce parts of the articles. OpenAI has denied these claims and asked the court to dismiss the case, alleging that the NYT paid someone to "hack" its models and exploit a bug, which it has committed to addressing.

The NYT's lawyer, Ian Crosby, has dismissed OpenAI's hacking allegations as "bizarre" and maintains that OpenAI's products were used to find evidence of copyright infringement. He also expressed concern over OpenAI's monitoring of user queries and outputs, which the company had previously claimed not to do. OpenAI has yet to respond to these allegations.

Key takeaways:

  • OpenAI has accused The New York Times Company of paying someone to 'hack' ChatGPT to generate verbatim paragraphs from articles in its newspaper, a claim that the NYT has denied.
  • The NYT had previously sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of scraping the newspaper's website without permission to train large language models.
  • OpenAI has asked the court to dismiss the case, arguing that the NYT had abused its chatbot by tricking the software into regurgitating some training data.
  • The NYT's lead counsel, Ian Crosby, has called OpenAI's hacking allegations 'bizarre' and maintains that OpenAI's products were used to find evidence of copyright infringement.
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