OpenAI Responds to New York Times Lawsuit, Claims Misuse of AI Model

Company alleges newspaper used manipulative prompting techniques to induce AI model to regurgitate copyrighted content.

OpenAI has responded to The New York Times' lawsuit, alleging that the newspaper used manipulative prompting techniques to induce its AI model, ChatGPT, to regurgitate lengthy excerpts of articles, thereby 'cherry picking' examples for the lawsuit.
The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleges copyright infringement, claiming that ChatGPT outputs verbatim content from the newspaper.
OpenAI argues that the lawsuit's claims are based on misuse of ChatGPT and that the newspaper used adversarial prompting techniques to generate the disputed output.
OpenAI also claims that it is continually making its systems more resistant to adversarial attacks and is committed to respecting copyright.
Separately, OpenAI has stated that it would be 'impossible' to train leading AI models without using copyrighted materials, asserting that using out-of-copyright public domain material would result in sub-par AI software.