The lead counsel for The New York Times said Tuesday (Feb. 27) that OpenAI’s claims that the publisher “hacked” its artificial intelligence (AI) systems to produce misleading results “bizarrely mischaracterizes” the situation. “What OpenAI bizarrely mischaracterizes as ‘hacking’ is simply using OpenAI’s products to look for evidence that they stole and reproduced The Times’s copyrighted works,” Crosby said in the email. The AI firm said this while asking the judge to dismiss parts of that lawsuit, according to the report. OpenAI said in a Monday (Feb. 26) court filing that The New York Times used deceptive prompts to cause OpenAI’s technology to reproduce the publisher’s copyrighted material, and violated the AI firm’s terms of service while doing so, per the report. “We look forward to exploring that issue in discovery.”The New York Times filed its copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in December, alleging that the tech companies used its content without permission to develop their AI products.

Source: New York Times February 28, 2024 04:18 UTC