Intelligence will be artificial, but its legal defense has the same style as that practiced by humans. An accusation is answered with another accusation. The company OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, a tool that has broken molds, responded to The New York Times' plagiarism lawsuit in federal court with the argument that the newspaper hired a hacker to hack the platform. “This is the truth,” his lawyers stressed when accusing the newspaper of this ploy.
The process began last December, when the Times sued OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, the face of AI, and its partner Microsoft under the accusation of infringing copyright for the use of millions of its articles to train your artificial intelligence tool.
In its reply, OpenAI asked the judge to reject the newspaper's lawsuit or at least discard four of the six charges raised in the complaint, in which it is claimed that the platform plagiarized texts 100% in their form and content.
The lawyers of the company led by Altman indicated that the way in which the newspaper got the AI platform to show apparently plagiarized answers “was not in line with its own journalistic standards, famous for their rigor.”
Not only did the Times pay someone to hack OpenAI's products, they continued in the defense, but it also deceived the system and thus produced misleading evidence to make this case. “It led them to make thousands of attempts to generate the highly anomalous results” outlined in the newspaper's lawsuit, the technology platform insisted in its argument.
That alleged hack “were able to do so not only by targeting and exploiting a bug that OpenAI has committed to addressing,” but The New York Times also resorted to “misleading messages that blatantly violate the platform's terms of use,” the lawyers stressed. “They even had to feed the tool with parts of the same articles they were looking for to obtain word-for-word passages,” they added.
The problem is that The New York Times is not alone in its suspicions against ChatGPT for copying. Writers and visual artists have also denounced the company. A few days ago, a judge dismissed a lawsuit by Sarah Silverman and a group of creators for copyright infringement. This is the beginning of a new era.
