The New York Timesscopyright lawsuitagainst OpenAI is getting ugly.
The Grey Lady sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023over copyright infringement.
ChatGPT, OpenAIs premiere product, is aplagiarism machine.
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This hasnt sat well with the journalists, and the Times sued late last year.
The legal battles been going on ever since.
Basically, the tech giant is claiming the Times has tricked the model into plagiarizing.
OpenAI has also publicly said that its LLM is part of the future of news.
Court recordsfiled on July 1tell the story.
OpenAIs argument seems to be that copyright claims are only valid when the works are original to the author.
The record-keeping practices of journalists are varied.
Finding all the stuff, organizing it, and cataloging it would take years.
That might be the point.
OpenAI is backed by Microsoft, a multi-billion dollar corporation.
The Times is wealthy, but its not Silicon Valley wealthy.
It is undeniable that LLMs like ChatGPT hoover up the work of journalists and repurpose it.
Its up to individual news agencies to decide how theyll deal with that.
Perhaps each is hoping theyll be the last creature devoured in the lions cage.
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