OpenAI Calls for Dismissal of New York Times Copyright Lawsuit, Claims Evidence Manipulation
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OpenAI has requested a federal judge to dismiss parts of a copyright lawsuit from The New York Times. The AI company alleges that the Times manipulated its AI systems to generate false evidence. The lawsuit, initially filed in December 2023, accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of using millions of copyrighted Times articles without permission for chatbot training. The companies and others maintain that AI training cannot progress without using copyrighted materials. Legal proceedings are ongoing while copyright law's applicability to AI training remains undefined.
OpenAI is requesting a U.S. federal judge to discard portions of The New York Times' copyright infringement lawsuit. It claims the multimedia news organisation manipulated its AI systems, including ChatGPT, to produce false evidence for the ongoing lawsuit. That was revealed in the company's filing at a federal court in Manhattan on Monday, where OpenAI accused the news behemoth of coercing the systems into reproducing copyrighted material with misleading prompts, a clear violation of OpenAI's usage terms. The company refrained from identifying the suspected individual hired by the Times to avoid any hacking law violation allegations.
Within their statement, OpenAI expressed that the lawsuit does not live up to the Times' renowned journalistic integrity, instead alleging that the publication had paid someone to exploit the company's products. However, Ian Crosby, representing the Times, contested this claim, stating that their use of OpenAI's products is purely for finding evidence of any alleged copyright infringements.
In December 2023, The Times first lodged the suit against OpenAI and its primary monetary partner, Microsoft. The suit claimed that millions of Times articles were used without permission to train chatbots that advise users. In doing so, the suit utilised both the United States Constitution and the Copyright Act to safeguard the journalistic integrity of The Times. Bing AI, a product of Microsoft, was also accused of generating extracts directly from its content.
Joining The Times in claiming various tech companies have misrepresented their copyrighted content for AI training, are copyright holders including authors, visual artists, and music publishers. In response, companies such as OpenAI affirm the impossibility of nurturing advanced AI systems without the use of protected content. OpenAI justified this claim in a document submitted to the UK House of Lords by noting that copyright encompasses an expansive array of human expressions, rendering the development of AI systems unfeasible without the utilization of copyrighted material.
Tech companies persist in arguing the fair use of copyrighted content by their AI systems and warn that lawsuits could stifle the potential growth of an industry, possibly worth trillions of dollars. The jury is still out on this matter as courts are yet to ascertain whether AI training constitutes fair use under copyright law. In some instances, however, infringement charges related to AI-generated outputs were shelved due to a lack of evidence suggesting that AI-produced content is replicating copyrighted works.
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2/28/2024 10:50:09 AM
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