New York Times vs. OpenAI — An Objective Summary of the Charges Philip S. Naudus · Follow Published in The Toilet Paper · 4 min read · Just now Just now -- ShareNYT’s lawsuit will transform the AI landscape, one way or another (macrovector/freepik)The purpose of this article is to objectively summarize the New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. ChatGPT can produce NYT articles verbatimIn their lawsuit, NYT demonstrated how people can use ChatGPT to generate copyrighted material verbatim “with minimal prompting.”Of course, search engines also access and reproduce copyrighted material. To quote from the lawsuit:Users who ask a search engine what The Times has written on a subject should be provided with neither an unauthorized copy nor an inaccurate forgery of a Times article, but a link to the article itself. NYT’s content represents an enormous amount of human effort“Many of these articles take months — and sometimes longer — to report,” the lawsuit reads. NYT’s content represents “almost two centuries of high-quality, original, independent news.” In some cases, a…

Source: New York Times January 05, 2024 13:26 UTC