OpenAI Says New York Times Copyright Lawsuit ‘Bearless’

(CNN) — OpenAI this Monday opposed the lawsuit filed last month The New York Timeswhich claims the artificial intelligence giant violated copyright laws by using journalism NYTimes to train their system.

“The New York Times It’s not telling the whole story,” OpenAI said in a blog post about the lawsuit, adding that its “goals are to support a healthy news ecosystem, be good partners, and create mutually beneficial opportunities.”

The New York Times In December it sued OpenAI, as well as its business partner and investor Microsoft, for copyright infringement.

He NYTimes claimed that the two companies’ artificial intelligence technologies illegally copied millions of newspaper articles to train ChatGPT and other instant information access services, which now compete with the technology. NYTimes. (Microsoft has not commented on the lawsuit.)

The complaint is one of a series of recent lawsuits seeking to limit the alleged theft of vast amounts of Internet content, without compensation, to train so-called massive artificial intelligence models.

In its statement on Monday, OpenAI reiterated its claim that training AI systems with “publicly available Internet content” is covered by copyright law’s “fair use” protections. “We believe this principle is fair to manufacturers, necessary for innovation and important for US competitiveness,” the company said.

In his claim, The New York Times Rebutted OpenAI’s fair use argument, saying that ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot served the same purpose as a newspaper.

“There is nothing ‘transformational’ about using content from The Times without paying to create products that steal from The Times and its audience,” NYTimes in its demand. “Because the outputs of defendants’ GenAI models compete with and closely mimic the inputs used to train them, copying works from the Times for that purpose is not fair use.”

It is unknown if OpenAI has already filed a formal response to the lawsuit in court; No new filings on the docket were publicly available as of Monday afternoon.

Contacted CNN The New York Times To ask you for comments on OpenAI’s statement.

In his claim, The New York Times Says that because AI tools were trained on its content, they sometimes provide verbatim copies of sections of Times reports.

“We expect our users to act responsibly; intentionally manipulating our models to mechanically repeat them is not a fair use of our technology and is against our terms of use,” OpenAI said.

The technology company has also made allegations NYTimes “Deliberately” tampering with ChatGPT or selecting examples of imitation that he detailed in his complaint.

OpenAI also mentions licensing agreements with other publishers such as Axel Springer and the Associated Press to compensate them for the use of their content to train their models, as well as to compensate media outlets for ” “selectivity. “Its tools analyze their sites, as it did The New York Times In August.

The New York Times His lawsuit claims he spent months negotiating with OpenAI and Microsoft to seek fair compensation and set the terms of a similar licensing agreement. But he assured that the companies were unable to reach a suitable solution.

OpenAI said Monday that those conversations continued until Dec. 19, a week before the complaint was filed. NYTimes.

“Discussions around streaming viewing with attribution on ChatGPT are focused on high-value partnerships, in which The New York Times will gain a new way to engage with its existing and new readers, and our users will gain access to their reports,” OpenAI said. .

“We consider The New York Times’ lawsuit grounded. However, we believe in constructive cooperation with The New York Times and respect its long history,” he added.