OpenAI Counters New York Times Lawsuit Claims on Use of Paywalled Content

OpenAI responded to a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by The New York Times by describing its use of the media outlet’s content as negligible. “Just as humans obtain a broad education to learn how to solve new problems, we want our AI models to observe the range of the world’s information, including from every language, culture, and industry,” the company said in a press release. “Because models learn from the enormous aggregate of human knowledge, any one sector—including news—is a tiny slice of overall training data, and any single data source—including The New York Times—is not significant for the model’s intended learning.”...