Anonymous reader quotes Reuters report. The New York Times denies claims that OpenAI “hacked” its artificial intelligence systems to create misleading evidence of copyright infringement, calling the accusations “false and therefore irrelevant.” insisted. The Times said in a court filing Monday that OpenAI's request to dismiss parts of the paper's lawsuit alleging the article was used to train artificial intelligence was “justified.” . In December, the newspaper accused OpenAI and its biggest financial backer, Microsoft, of using millions of the company's articles without permission to train chatbots that provide information to users.
The newspaper is among several prominent copyright holders, including authors, visual artists and music publishers, who have sued tech companies for allegedly misusing copyrighted material in AI training. The paper's complaint cites several instances in which programs such as OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT provided users with nearly verbatim excerpts of articles upon request. OpenAI countered last month that the Times paid anonymous “hired guns” to manipulate its product and reproduce the paper's content. It asked the court to dismiss parts of the lawsuit, including the claim that the AI-generated content infringed the Times' copyright. “In the ordinary course of things, you cannot use ChatGPT to freely serve Times articles,” OpenAI said. The company also said it will ultimately prove that AI Training made fair use of copyrighted content.
The Times responded Monday that it had only used “the first few words or sentences” of the article to prompt ChatGPT to recreate it. “OpenAI's real complaint is not how the Times conducted its investigation, but what that investigation uncovered. Defendants copied Times content on an unprecedented scale to build products. “OpenAI does not and cannot dispute this fact,” the Times said.