OpenAI has requested a federal judge to dismiss New York Times’ lawsuit, stating that the newspaper engaged in “hacking” to manipulate its ChatGPT chatbot and other AI systems, generating misleading evidence for the case.
OpenAI claimed in a filing on Monday that the Times used “deceptive prompts” that violated its terms of use, causing the technology to reproduce material.
OpenAI contended that the Times paid someone to hack its products but did not specify the individual and did not accuse the newspaper of violating anti-hacking laws.
The Times’ attorney, Ian Crosby, responded, stating that OpenAI mischaracterized the situation, and the alleged “hacking” involved using OpenAI’s products to find evidence of stolen and reproduced copyrighted work.
The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December, accusing them of using millions of articles without permission to train chatbots.
OpenAI argued that the Times took tens of thousands of attempts to generate anomalous results, and eventually, AI companies would prevail based on the fair-use question concerning AI training and copyright law.
