OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has accused the New York Times of “hacking” the chatbot in order to acquire evidence for the newspaper’s copyright lawsuit against the tech company. According to it filing in Manhattan federal court, the Times used “deceptive prompts that blatantly violate OpenAI’s terms of use,” which led ChatGPT to reproduce the newspaper’s material.
“The allegations in the Times’s complaint do not meet its famously rigorous journalistic standards,” OpenAI said. “The truth, which will come out in the course of this case, is that the Times paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products.”
However, the Times’ attorney, Ian Crosby, rebuked the lawsuit, saying that the newspaper only used the available technology to find evidence of copyright infringements.
The Times sued both OpenAi and Microsoft, its largest financial backer, in December under the claim that ChatGPT is using millions of its news articles to train chatbots. A number of other copyright owners, including authors, visual artists and music publishers, have also sued tech companies for using their work in AI training.
