Accused of copyright infringement by the New York TimesOpenAI countersued in court, accusing the American daily of having “hacked” its generative artificial intelligence (AI) interface, ChatGPT, to produce “highly abnormal results”.
OpenAI, the company that has been taking off for a year thanks to the success of ChatGPT, filed a lawsuit Monday in New York, asking the court to exclude certain elements and charges from the complaint. New York Times.
“Contrary to allegations […]ChatGPT is in no way a substitute for subscription to the New York Times. […] In the normal course of things, ChatGPT cannot be used to serve articles from the Times at will,” argues the Californian start-up.
At the end of December, the newspaper launched proceedings against OpenAI and Microsoft, the company’s main investor.
THE New York Times calls into question the development methods of generative AI platforms, in particular ChatGPT, which “is based on massive learning models built by copying and using millions of articles from the Times protected by copyright.
Generative AI, popularized by ChatGPT, makes it possible to produce all kinds of content (text, images, sounds, lines of code, etc.) by simple query in everyday language.
” The truth […] is that the Times paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products. It took tens of thousands of attempts to generate the highly abnormal results which constitute “one of the proofs of the complaint,” OpenAI estimates in its appeal filed Monday, consulted by AFP.
THE New York Times “exploited bugs,” “violated the terms of service” and provided ChatGPT with “portions of the very items they were seeking to obtain,” the company accuses. “Normal people don’t use OpenAI products in this way,” she adds.
OpenAI further assures 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 “to produce quality journalism, the Times invests a huge amount of time, money, expertise and talent”, and that if its “ability to generate income” were called into question, the quality and quantity of editorial production would decline.
Other organizations and individuals have launched similar lawsuits against generative AI companies, including the author of Game Of ThronesGeorge 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 no right to monopolize the facts or the rules of the language,” promises OpenAI.