In response to the New York Times' complaint, OpenAI alleges that the Times paid someone to hack OpenAI's products and that it took tens of thousands of attempts to produce the results that the Times cited as examples of copyright infringement. The Times, however, claims that OpenAI used its articles to train chatbots and recited large portions of articles in response to queries. All cases are currently filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI is facing two new lawsuits from The Intercept, Raw Media, and Alternet Media, in addition to an existing suit from the New York Times, all alleging copyright infringement.
- The Intercept's complaint accuses OpenAI of intentionally removing author, title, copyright notice, and terms of use information from their copyrighted works for ChatGPT training sets, violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
- The suit seeks damages and an injunction requiring the defendants to remove all of The Intercept’s copyrighted works from their training sets where author, copyright and other details are missing.
- OpenAI has responded to the Times' complaint, alleging that the Times paid someone to hack OpenAI's products and that it took tens of thousands of attempts to produce the results that the Times cited as examples of copyright infringement.