The New York Times Accuses OpenAI of Concealing Evidence in Copyright Case

The New York Times and other publishers involved in litigation against OpenAI have stated that the company concealed evidence in a copyright infringement case related to ChatGPT.

According to their claims, the matter concerns tools and datasets that could help establish whether journalists' material was used in generating the chatbot's responses. The publishers argue that access to this data was necessary to substantiate their claims in court.

Motion for Sanctions

The publications have filed a new motion demanding that sanctions be imposed on OpenAI for withholding information. This move marks an escalation in the ongoing legal dispute between the news organizations and the company that developed ChatGPT.

The lawsuit originally concerned the alleged use of the publications' material without permission in training and operating OpenAI's language models. Now the conflict has spread to procedural matters related to the disclosure of evidence.

There has been no official response from OpenAI to the new accusations so far. The legal proceedings continue, and their outcome could influence how relations between artificial intelligence developers and the copyright holders of journalistic material are regulated going forward.

Source: TechCrunch