OpenAI responds to the lawsuit filed by The New York Times, stating that they disagree with the claims of copyright infringement. OpenAI sees the lawsuit as an opportunity to clarify its business practices and intentions. The company is actively collaborating with news organizations and industry groups to address concerns and create mutually beneficial opportunities. OpenAI asserts that training AI models using publicly available internet materials is fair use and necessary for innovation and US competitiveness.
In December 2023, Thew
New York Times
filed a
copyright infringement
case against
OpenAI
and Microsoft. The publication accused the two companies for training its
AI models
and
chatbots
using its data. Now, OpenAI has released a detailed response to NYT’s lawsuit. “While we disagree with the claims in The New York Times
lawsuit
, we view it as an opportunity to clarify our business, our intent, and how we build our technology,” said OpenAI in a statement.
OpenAI said that it is actively collaborating with news organisations and industry groups like the News/Media Alliance to address their concerns and provide solutions. The goals of OpenAI include supporting a healthy news ecosystem, being a valuable partner, and creating mutually beneficial opportunities. Partnerships involve deploying products to assist reporters, training AI models with historical non-public content, and displaying real-time, attributed content in
ChatGPT
to enhance reader engagement, said OpenAI.
The ChatGPT maker also said that training AI models using publicly available internet materials is fair use, as supported by long-standing and widely accepted precedents. “We view this principle as fair to creators, necessary for innovators, and critical for US competitiveness,” the company noted.
The NYT alleged that OpenAI is making billions of dollars using data like the publication’s. OpenAI countered it by saying “Because models learn from the enormous aggregate of human knowledge, any one sector—including news—is a tiny slice of overall training data, and any single data source—including The New York Times—is not significant for the model’s intended learning.”
NYT not telling the ‘whole story’
OpenAI also detailed its discussions with NYT. “The negotiations focused on a high-value partnership around real-time display with attribution in ChatGPT, in which The New York Times would gain a new way to connect with their existing and new readers, and our users would gain access to their reporting.” OpenAI said that it clarified to NYT that their content “didn't meaningfully contribute to the training of our existing models and also wouldn't be sufficiently impactful for future training.”
“We regard The New York Times’ lawsuit to be without merit. Still, we are hopeful for a constructive partnership with The New York Times and respect its long history,” said OpenAI
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