OpenAI has alleged The New York Times “intentionally manipulated” its chatbot to regurgitate whole lines from the newspaper’s articles, as it fights a copyright lawsuit from the newspaper that poses a threat to how it develops its technology.
The lawsuit, filed just after Christmas, was “without merit”, according to a blog post published by the artificial intelligence company on Monday, which added that the newspaper was not “telling the full story”.
In the lawsuit filed on December 27, the US media company accused the AI start-up and its chief backer Microsoft of taking a “free ride” by using millions of articles to build its chatbot technology, which is capable of responding in detail to natural language prompts.