On February 28, the chief lawyer of The New York Times said on Tuesday (February 27) that OpenAI's claim that publishers hacked its artificial intelligence (AI) systems to produce misleading results strangely distorted the situation.
In an email to PymnTS, Ian Crosby, a partner at Susman Godfrey and lead attorney at The New York Times, responded to a Reuters report that he said OpenAI's court filings did not challenge the company for copying the publisher's work without permission and using it to support it.
Strangely mischaracterised as hackers, OpenAI simply utilizes OpenAI's products to find evidence that they have stolen and copied the copyrighted work of the New York Times. Crosby said in an email. That's exactly what we found. In fact, OpenAI's plagiarism scale is far greater than the more than 100 examples listed in the complaint. 」
Reuters reported on Tuesday (Feb. 27) that OpenAI told a federal judge that The New York Times paid an expert to hack OpenAI's artificial intelligence (AI) system to create misleading evidence for its copyright infringement lawsuit.
The AI company reportedly said this while asking the judge to dismiss part of the lawsuit.
OpenAI said in court filings on Monday (Feb. 26) that The New York Times used deceptive prompts to cause OpenAI's technology to copy the publisher's copyrighted material and violate the artificial intelligence company's terms of service.
The company also said in court filing on Monday that its chatbot copied the New York Times article in response to user prompts, producing highly anomalous results after tens of thousands of attempts by The New York Times, Reuters reported.
Under normal use, these results do not occur, the report says.
In a statement provided to PymnTS, Crosby said that OpenAI often copied works without permission, concealed how its products worked, and confirmed that by striking deals with other publishers, it knew it was unfair to use copyrighted works without authorization.
OpenAI's response also suggests that it is tracking users' queries and outputs, which is especially surprising given that they claim not to do so. Crosby said in an email. We look forward to exploring this issue in our discoveries. 」
The New York Times filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft last December, accusing tech companies of using its content to develop AI products without permission.
An OpenAI spokesperson reached out to Pymnts at the time, saying that the company respects the rights of content creators and owners and is committed to working with them to ensure they benefit from AI technology and new revenue models.