Did you know OpenAI Publicly Calls Out The New York Times For Launching Copyright Infringement Lawsuit ‘Without Merit’ Against It
The unexpected legal action taken by The New York Times against ChatGPT maker OpenAI and software giant Microsoft did cause a stir in the tech world
recently. But if you think both leading firms are just going to sit
back and let the high-profile media outlet make striking allegations of
copyright infringement against it without justification, then you’re
mistaken.
OpenAI has taken issue with The New York Times, asserting
that the lawsuit they generated lacks merit. And it’s a big deal,
considering how the NYT is a leader in the world of journalism.
The company began its statement by first praising its accusers, calling
it a reputed organization and adding how much it supports the right kind
of journalism. But now, we’re seeing the tech giant add the lawsuit
garnered in its direction has no merit and therefore cannot make such
huge allegations without any basis.
In the same way, the post
went on to speak about how the goal is to collaborate with several media
outlets and generate the best possible opportunities in the industry.
They also shed light on how any kind of training carried out is of fair
use and they also give the option to users to opt-out as they feel it’s
the right thing to do in terms of generating options for them. And
lastly, they did delineate how the problem of regurgitation is there and
has been from the start and they’re working hard to bring that down to
zero.
Every claim was spoken in detail with pun intended and
captured headlines and it was interesting to see how so many of the
allegations put out against them had to do with scraping public news
sources for the sake of training its AI models like GPT 3.5 and 4
variants. But the company has mentioned since the end of last year how
it is offering legal protections with all of its AI offerings.
The case in question was rolled out at the end of last year when the NYT
alleged that the AI giant not only trained models using its articles
protected by copyright claims but at the same time, it never attained
the right kind of permission to carry out the deed. Similarly, they
failed to provide any kind of compensation for the examples in question,
producing text that was quite like the content seen in the articles of
NYT.
Therefore, the act was dubbed a serious crime as it gave
rise to unauthorized reproductions as well as derivatives from NYT
articles. This kind of suit was rolled out after months of carrying out
negotiations with both parties. It’s a deal between OpenAI and NYT reps
who just failed to reach a conclusion or agreement that both parties
found acceptable.
The impact that this had is that OpenAI really
tried to cater to its clients and users but then others began to take
advantage of just that. In the end, such deals were rolled out to
prevent OpenAI from training on its own material.
Now, OpenAI
says that it’s being manipulated by the NYT as the prompts generated in
its direction are clearly violations mentioned in its Terms of Services.
They accused the media giant of rolling out manipulative prompts that
force models to regurgitate hand-picked examples.
Therefore,
they feel such claims are not very typical nor are allowed but they are
working hard to make the system in such a way that prevents such
adversarial attacks from taking place where models are forced to
regurgitate data used for training. They also spoke about having great
success with such models.
