OpenAI accuses New York Times of paying to 'hack' ChatGPT

After The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement last December, it was determined that OpenAI and Microsoft had used millions of articles to train their systems without permission or compensation. The indictment alleges millions of Times copyrighted news pieces. In-depth investigation. Comments, reviews, how-to guides, and more features are used to train chatbots. which now competes with news agencies as a source of information.

In a filing filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday, OpenAI accused The News York Times of having hired hackers. Hacked to create 100 examples of copyright infringement, which OpenAI claims took tens of thousands of attempts to create. "Highly unusual results" and this goal was achieved using “Deceptive notifications that flagrantly violate OpenAI's terms of use,” “Normal people don't use OpenAI products in this way.

OpenAI did not name the "hackers" it claims The News York Times hired to manipulate ChatGPT's output, and it does not allege actual hacking. It sounds more like standard whistleblowing engineering, and The New York Times agrees.

“What OpenAI misdescribes Bizarrely, the 'hack' was simply using OpenAI's product to find evidence that they had stolen and duplicated copyrighted works of The New York Times, and that's exactly what we found. OpenAI's level of copying is much larger. More than 100 examples are listed in the complaint,” said Sussman partner Ian Crosby. said Godfrey and leading consultants for publishing. “In filing this lawsuit, OpenAI does not dispute – and cannot – copy millions of The News York Times works to create and power commercial products without our permission.”

The use of copyrighted work to train generative AI has led to numerous lawsuits from authors, artists, and creators. OpenAI said in its filing that AI companies win such cases based on fair use. It noted that The New York Times "cannot prevent AI models from acquiring knowledge about facts."

It was reported back in August that The News York Times was in "negotiations" to reach a license agreement with OpenAI and Microsoft that would allow the former to legally train its GPT models from content published by OpenAI. Times, which is what the newspaper had previously decided to ban, but negotiations failed. leading to current litigation