OpenAI filed a lawsuit in New York on Monday. (Photo: 123RF)
San Francisco – Accused of copyright infringement by The New York Times, OpenAI countersued in court, accusing the American daily of “hacking” its flagship generative artificial intelligence (AI) interface, ChatGPT, to produce “highly abnormal results.” delivery.
OpenAI, the company that has been on the rise for a year thanks to the success of ChatGPT, filed a lawsuit in New York on Monday, asking the court to exclude certain elements and charges from the New York Times (NYT) complaint.
“Contrary to claims (…), ChatGPT is in no way a replacement for subscribing to the New York Times.” (…) Normally we cannot use ChatGPT to provide articles from the Times at will,” argues the Californian start-up .
At the end of December, the newspaper initiated proceedings against OpenAI and Microsoft, the main investor in this start-up.
The NYT questions the development methods of generative AI platforms, particularly ChatGPT, which is “based on massive learning models created by copying and using millions of copyrighted Times articles. Author”.
Generative AI, popularized by ChatGPT, enables the production of all types of content (text, images, sounds, lines of code, etc.) through simple querying in everyday language.
“The truth (…) is that the Times paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products. It took tens of thousands of attempts to obtain the extremely abnormal results that constitute one of the pieces of evidence in the complaint, OpenAI estimates in its appeal filed on Monday, consulted by AFP.
The company accuses the NYT of “exploiting errors,” “violating the terms of use,” and ChatGPT “providing portions of the very articles they intended to receive.” “Normal people don’t use OpenAI products this way,” she adds.
OpenAI further asserts that it is legal to use copyrighted material “in the creation of new, different and innovative products,” citing case law.
In December, the newspaper emphasized that “The Times invests enormous amounts of time, money, expertise and talent to produce quality journalism” and that when its “ability to generate revenue” comes into question the quality and quantity of editorial contributions will Production would decline.
Other organizations and individuals have filed similar lawsuits against generative AI companies, including “Game of Thrones” author George RR Martin against OpenAI.
“OpenAI and the other defendants in these lawsuits will ultimately prevail because no one—not even the New York Times—has the right to monopolize the facts or the rules of language,” OpenAI promises.