The Times sued OpenAI. OpenAI says that isn’t the whole story.

In late December, the New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its artificial-intelligence software ChatGPT. According to a Times story, the suit alleges that OpenAI used millions of Times articles to train “automated chatbots that now compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information,” and in so doing has tried to “free-ride on the Times’s massive investment in its journalism.” Although the lawsuit doesn’t request a specific amount from OpenAI, it says that the company should hand over “billions of dollars” in damages. The Times also wants OpenAI to destroy any AI models, databases, and training data that were based on copyrighted material taken from the paper.

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