The New York Times vs. OpenAI: What’s the worst that could happen?

The future of media, artificial intelligence and U.S. copyright law could all hang in the balance.

When a generative artificial intelligence (AI) system outputs something strikingly similar to the data it was trained on, is it copyright infringement or a bug in the system? This is the question at the heart of The New York Times’ recent lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

The New York Times alleges that OpenAI used more content from the NYT website to train its AI models than nearly any other proprietary source — with only Wikipedia and data sets containing United States patent documents trumping it.

OpenAI says training on copyrighted data is “fair use” and The New York Times’ lawsuit is “without merit.”

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Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-york-times-vs-open-ai-artificial-intelligence-worst-that-could-happen