(CNN) — OpenAI this Monday opposed the lawsuit filed last month by The New York Timeswhich claims that the artificial intelligence giant violated copyright law by using journalism from New York Times to train their systems.
“The New York Times is not telling the whole story,” OpenAI said in a blog post about the lawsuit, adding that its “goals are to support a healthy news ecosystem, be a good partner, and create mutually beneficial opportunities.”
The New York Times sued OpenAI, as well as its business partner and investor Microsoft, for copyright infringement in December.
He New York Times claimed that the two companies’ AI technologies illegally copied millions of newspaper articles to train ChatGPT and other instant information services, technology that now competes with New York Times. (Microsoft did not comment on the lawsuit.)
The complaint is part of a series of recent lawsuits seeking to limit the alleged theft of large swaths of Internet content, without compensation, to train so-called large AI models.
In its statement on Monday, OpenAI reiterated its claim that training AI systems with “publicly available Internet materials” is covered by copyright law’s “fair use” protections. “We believe this principle is right for creators, necessary for innovators, and critical to U.S. competitiveness,” the company said.
In his request, The New York Times refuted OpenAi’s fair use argument, saying that ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot offer a similar service to the newspaper.
“There is nothing ‘transformative’ about using Times content without paying to create products that replace The Times and steal its audience,” he said New York Times in your request. “Because the outputs of Defendants’ GenAI models compete with and closely mimic the inputs used to train them, copying works from the Times for this purpose is not fair use.”
It is not known whether OpenAI has already formally responded to the court case; As of Monday afternoon, there were no new documents available to the public.
CNN contacted The New York Times to ask you for comments on OpenAI’s statement.
In his request, The New York Times says that because AI tools have been trained on its content, they sometimes provide verbatim copies of sections of Times reports.
“We also expect our users to act responsibly; intentionally manipulating our models to perform mechanical iteration is not an appropriate use of our technology and is against our terms of use,” OpenAI said.
The tech company also blamed the New York Times that he “intentionally” manipulated ChatGPT or that he selected the examples of imitation that he detailed in his complaint.
OpenAI also referenced licensing agreements it has reached with other publishers, such as Axel Springer and Associated Press, to compensate them for the use of their content to train their models, as well as the ability to ” “opt out by average. ” of the analysis of sites by its tools, as it has done The New York Times in August.
The New York Times it said in its lawsuit that it spent months negotiating with OpenAI and Microsoft to receive fair compensation and establish the terms of a similar licensing agreement. But he assured that the companies have not been able to reach a fair solution.
OpenAI said Monday that those conversations continued until Dec. 19, a week before the complaint was filed. New York Times.
“The negotiations centered on a high-value partnership around streaming viewing with attribution on ChatGPT, in which The New York Times would get a new way to connect with its existing and new readers, and our users would have access to their reporting,” OpenAI said. .
“We consider the New York Times lawsuit to be unfounded. Nonetheless, we look forward to a constructive collaboration with the New York Times and respect its long history,” he added.
2024-01-08 21:06:00
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