OpenAI said The New York Times “paid someone to hack OpenAI products like ChatGPT to set up a lawsuit” against the leading AI maker. In the filed lawsuit, OpenAI claims that “100 examples in which a specific version of OpenAI's GPT-4 model allegedly generated multiple paragraphs of Times content in response to user queries” do not reflect how ordinary people use ChatGPT.
Instead, the Times claims it took “tens of thousands of attempts to generate” these supposedly “highly anomalous results” by “targeting and exploiting a bug” that OpenAI is now “committed to fixing.”
Contrary to the allegations in the complaint, ChatGPT is in no way a substitute for a subscription to The New York Times. In the real world, people don't use ChatGPT or any other OpenAI product for this purpose. And they couldn't. Of course, no one can use ChatGPT to get Times articles at will.
OpenAI argues in a motion that seeks to dismiss most of The Times' claims.
OpenAI argues that the court should dismiss claims of direct copyright infringement, contributory copyright infringement, violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and misappropriation, all of which it calls “legally untenable.”
If OpenAI's motion is granted, then most likely only trademark dilution claims will remain. But if The Times wins, which is quite possible, OpenAI may be forced to remove ChatGPT and start all over again, ArsTechnica reports.
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