"NY Times Denies OpenAI's Hacking Claim in Copyright Dispute"

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Source: Ars Technica
"NY Times Denies OpenAI's Hacking Claim in Copyright Dispute"
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The New York Times responded to OpenAI's claims of "hacking" ChatGPT, arguing that it was not hacking but rather prompting the AI to bypass paywalls and discover evidence of copyright infringement. The NYT's court filing revealed that ChatGPT users were using the tool to generate entire articles and bypass paywalls, prompting OpenAI to temporarily disable a feature that allowed access to content beyond the model's training dataset. The NYT's lawsuit accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of copyright infringement, with the NYT seeking to track the full extent of copyright infringement and prompting ChatGPT to discover evidence.

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