highlights:
-openai alleges that the New York Times used "deceptive prompts" to get chatgpt to recite its content, and asked the court to dismiss multiple allegations in the lawsuit.
-openai alleged that the New York Times exploited a vulnerability in its product to directly input article content into the chatbot, resulting in infringement.
- ⚖️ openai seeks a partial dismissal of the New York Times’ lawsuit alleging direct copyright infringement while also denying multiple other claims.
Webmaster Home (chinaz.com) February 28 News: openai claimed in a filing on Monday that the New York Times used "deceptive prompts" to make chatgpt retell its content. As a result, the company asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to dismiss several claims in the agency's infringement lawsuit.
openai claimed that the Times exploited a vulnerability that is currently being patched and fed article content directly into the chatbot to have it output text. “This is not how ordinary people would use OpenAI’s products,” the company said, citing an April 2023 Times article titled “35 Ways Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence Now.” This is very similar to the point made by openai in its public response in January.
Ian Crosby, chief lawyer for the New York Times, said in an email that calling the New York Times' practices hacking is a distortion and that the Times was simply using OpenAI's products to find evidence that they had stolen and copied the Times' copyrighted material. Protect works. He added that openai did not deny "copying the Times' work without permission within the statutory statute of limitations."
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December, claiming the companies trained their AI models to use its content and that their chatbots could copy articles verbatim. The Times claims this has cost it revenue and jeopardized its relationship with readers. openai seeks a partial dismissal of The Times's claim of direct infringement, "copying committed within three years prior to this action." At the same time, Openai asked the court to reject other accusations: Openai participated in infringement; Openai failed to delete infringing information; Openai created unfair competition through misappropriation. The Times' lawsuit also alleges trademark infringement, common law misappropriation and agency infringement.
Meanwhile, openai reduced the multiple claims in the lawsuit by sarah silverman and other authors to a single allegation of direct infringement. Although OpenAI's request was successful in this lawsuit, these two cases are not the only lawsuits against AI companies. Startups like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Stability AI are facing a growing number of legal battles, some from experienced and combative organizations, sometimes with decades of experience in copyright disputes.
