In addition to the block, the NYT is reportedly considering legal action against OpenAI for intellectual property rights violations. This follows other lawsuits against OpenAI, including those from comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors over the use of a dataset containing copyrighted works, and a programmer who alleges the company's data scraping practices amount to software piracy.
Key takeaways:
- The New York Times has blocked OpenAI's web crawler, GPTBot, from using its content to train AI models.
- The block was discovered on the NYT's robots.txt page, which controls how it appears to automated bots built to index the internet.
- The NYT updated its terms of service earlier this month to prohibit the use of its content to train AI models.
- The NYT is considering legal action against OpenAI for intellectual property rights violations.