A bombshell lawsuit against one of the largest artificial intelligence companies may have inadvertently revealed that popular AI chatbots are secretly propping up legacy media outlets in their answers.
In a 35-page motion filed on Monday, OpenAI pushed back against alleged “deceptive” accusations by The New York Times that it unlawfully used millions of copyrighted articles to train its GPT-based products, like ChatGPT, one of its infamous chatbots. “The allegations in the Times’s Complaint do not meet its famously rigorous journalistic standards,” attorneys for OpenAI claimed.
The motion followed a federal lawsuit filed by The Times in December, accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of copyright infringement, when both tech companies allegedly grabbed published news articles without authorization. Raw Story, Alternet and The Intercept have since filed two…
