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OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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OpenAI has publicly responded to a copyright lawsuit by The New York Times, calling the case “without merit” and saying it still hoped for a partnership with the media outlet.

In a blog post, OpenAI said the Times “is not telling the full story.” It took particular issue with claims that its ChatGPT AI tool reproduced Times stories verbatim, arguing that the Times had manipulated prompts to include regurgitated excerpts of articles. “Even when using such prompts, our models don’t typically behave the way The New York Times insinuates, which suggests they either instructed the model to regurgitate or cherry-picked their examples from many attempts,” OpenAI said.

OpenAI claims it’s attempted to reduce regurgitation from its large language models and that the Times refused to share examples of this reproduction before filing the lawsuit. It said the verbatim examples “appear to be from year-old articles that have proliferated on multiple third-party websites.” The company did admit that it took down a ChatGPT feature, called Browse, that unintentionally reproduced content.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

More like, OpenAI has said "so what if we were speeding, everyone does it" (did that work last time you got a ticket?)

Relevant exerpt from the article: "The company recently made a similar argument to the UK House of Lords, claiming no AI system like ChatGPT can be built without access to copyrighted content."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Same comment as yours, but instead of the opening paragraph with the analogy, say "Far Right Balks as Congress Begins Push to Enact Spending Deal".

Then, in the next paragraph where you quote the article, instead say "Congress on Monday began an uphill push to pass a new bipartisan spending agreement into law in time to avoid a partial government shutdown next week, with Speaker Mike Johnson encountering stiff resistance from his far-right flank to the deal he struck with Democrats."

That's closer to what open AI is arguing that the new York times did to get it to regurgitate an article.
Without actually seeing the prompts, it's hard to know exactly how much merit there is to that argument.