Representatives for The New York Times and OpenAI did not immediately respond.
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss part of a copyright lawsuit filed against it by The New York Times, saying the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence systems to generate misleading evidence in the case.
OpenAI said in a filing in Manhattan federal court on Monday that The New York Times caused the technology to copy its material through “deceptive prompts that flagrantly violated OpenAI’s terms of use.”
“The allegations in The New York Times’ complaint do not meet the rigorous journalistic standards for which it is famous,” OpenAI said. “As this case progresses, the truth will come out and The New York Times paid people to hack OpenAI’s products.”
Representatives for The New York Times and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the document.
In December, the New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft, its largest financial backer, accusing them of using millions of its articles without permission to train chatbots to provide information to users.
The New York Times is one of the reasons several copyright holders, including groups of writers, visual artists and music publishers, are suing tech companies for allegedly misusing their works in training artificial intelligence.
Tech companies say their artificial intelligence systems fair use of copyrighted material, and the lawsuits threaten the growth of a potentially multi-trillion dollar industry.
The indictment accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of trying to “free ride on The New York Times’s massive investment in its journalism” and create alternatives to the newspaper. It cited several examples in which OpenAI and Microsoft chatbots provided users with near-verbatim excerpts of articles when prompted.
OpenAI said in its filing that it took “tens of thousands of attempts” for The New York Times to produce highly anomalous results.
“Under normal circumstances, one would not be free to use ChatGPT to serve up New York Times articles,” OpenAI said.
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