OpenAI has been accused by the New York Times of copyrighting its AI models.
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to partially dismiss the New York Times copyright lawsuit.
In a Manhattan federal court filing on Monday, OpenAI said the NYT had caused the technology to distribute the material “with misleading suggestions that violate OpenAI's terms of use.” OpenAI did not identify the individual the NYT hired to monitor its systems, avoiding allegations that the newspaper violated anti-hacking laws.
In its filing, OpenAI says:
“The allegations in the Times' complaint do not meet the standard of rigorous journalism it is known for. The truth, as it turns out, is that the Times paid someone to hack OpenAI's products.
According to Ian Crosby, the newspaper's lawyer, OpenAI's claim of “hijacking” was merely an attempt to use OpenAI's products to obtain evidence of alleged theft and duplication of the NYT's copyrighted work.
In December 2023, the NYT filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its main financial backer, Microsoft. The lawsuit alleges the unauthorized use of millions of Newt articles to train chatbots that provide information to users.
The suit drew on both the United States Constitution and copyright law to protect the NYT's original journalism. He also pointed out that Microsoft's Bing AI will generate suggestions from verbatim content.
The New York Times is one of many copyright holders suing tech companies for misusing their content on AI training. Other groups, such as authors, visual artists and music publishers, have made similar claims.
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OpenAI has previously stated that it is “impossible” to train advanced AI models without using copyrighted works. In its submission to the UK House of Lords, it stated that as copyright covers a wide range of human expressions, it would be impossible to train leading AI avatars without including copyrighted material.
Tech companies argue that their AI systems actually use copyrighted material, and these lawsuits threaten the growth of the multi-trillion dollar industry.
Courts have yet to decide whether AI training is fair use under copyright law. However, some infringement claims related to the output of generative AI systems have been rejected because there was insufficient evidence that the AI-generated content was similar to copyrighted works.
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