In response, OpenAI argued that ChatGPT is not a substitute for a New York Times subscription and that people do not use it or any other OpenAI product for that purpose. The motion also requested the court to dismiss four claims from The Times’s complaint to narrow the focus of the lawsuit. OpenAI's lawyers further argued that The Times should not be allowed to sue for acts of reproduction that occurred more than three years ago and that the paper’s claim that OpenAI violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was not legally sound.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI has filed a motion in federal court seeking to dismiss key elements of a lawsuit brought by The New York Times Company.
- The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of infringing on its copyrights by using its articles to train A.I. technologies like the online chatbot ChatGPT.
- OpenAI argues that ChatGPT is not a substitute for a subscription to The New York Times and cannot be used to serve up Times articles at will.
- The motion asked the court to dismiss four claims from The Times’s complaint and argued that The Times should not be allowed to sue for acts of reproduction that occurred more than three years ago.