The technology company OpenAI – creators of the chatbot ChatGPT – asked a federal judge this Monday to dismiss parts of the copyright lawsuit of The New York Times (NYT) noting that the tabloid “hacked” its artificial intelligence (AI) to create misleading evidence for the case.
The New York Times sued OpenAI and its partner Microsoft in December 2023, accusing them of infringing its copyright by using “millions of its articles” to train its AI.
OpenAI now accuses the outlet of pay a hacker to gain access to information on the case. However, the technology company did not accuse the newspaper of violating any laws against computer piracy.
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“The allegations in the (New York) Times complaint do not meet its famously rigorous journalistic standards. The truth, which will come to light over the course of this case, is that the Times paid someone to hack OpenAI products “, notes in the OpenAI legal document.
The technology company also indicates that it took the newspaper “tens of thousands of attempts” to demonstrate that OpenAI technology in some cases reproduced excerpts from their articles almost word for word.
“They could only do so by attacking and exploiting a bug (which OpenAI says it is committed to fixing) through the use of misleading prompts that blatantly violate OpenAI's terms of use,” says the technology company.
In the text, OpenAI emphasizes that it has “important partnerships with leaders in the news industry”ranging from giants like the Associated Press news agency to smaller local outlets associated with the American Journalism Project.
(Keep reading: Hackers linked to governments in Russia, North Korea and Iran use ChatGPT).
Since ChatGPT became popular at the end of 2022, several writers and visual artists have denounced the company for not respecting their copyrights.
This month, actress Sarah Silverman and a group of authors saw a copyright infringement lawsuit they filed against OpenAI dismissed for failing to demonstrate similarity between the production made by ChatGPT and the books written by the plaintiffs.
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