Sam Altman said OpenAI had been in "productive negotiations" with The New York Times before news of the lawsuit broke. DAVOS, Switzerland — Sam Altman said he was "surprised" by The New York Times' lawsuit against his company, OpenAI, saying its artificial intelligence models didn't need to train on the publisher's data. According to Altman, OpenAI wanted to pay the outlet "a lot of money to display their content" in ChatGPT, the firm's popular AI chatbot. "We were as surprised as anybody else to read that they were suing us in The New York Times. "We are open to training [AI] on The New York Times, but it's not our priority," Altman said in front of a packed Davos crowd.

Source: International New York Times January 18, 2024 12:38 UTC