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Microsoft replies to NYT: case “fails to allege a specific instance of an end-user infringing The Times’s works, or Microsoft’s knowledge of any such act.”
Read more: Microsoft replies to NYT: case “fails to allege a specific instance of an end-user infringing The Times’s works, or Microsoft’s knowledge of any such act.”Microsoft just filed its reply to the New York Times’ opposition to the defendants’ partial motion to dismiss. Microsoft, quite forcefully, argues that the NYT lawsuit “fails to allege a specific instance of an end-user infringing The Times’s works, or Microsoft’s knowledge of any such act.” This is a lurking issue in the case. Although…
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New York Times replies to OpenAI’s motion to dismiss in testy exchange
Read more: New York Times replies to OpenAI’s motion to dismiss in testy exchangeThe New York Times swung back at OpenAI, which had accused the newspaper of hiring someone to “hack” ChatGPT to generated the examples of regurgitation used for the complaint NYT filed against OpenAI. The New York Times blasted OpenAI right from the get-go: Lacking any real grounds for dismissal, OpenAI devotes much of its filing…
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OpenAI continues to litigate in court of public opinion, refuting Elon Musk lawsuit
Read more: OpenAI continues to litigate in court of public opinion, refuting Elon Musk lawsuitOpenAI has continued to litigate in the court of public opinion. It first did so in responding to the New York Times copyright lawsuit in a blog post asserting that the NYT exploited a “rare bug” to regurgitate NYT articles potentially in violation of OpenAI’s terms of use. Later, in its motion to dismiss, OpenAI…
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OpenAI moves to dismiss New York Times suit, alleging it “paid someone to hack” ChatGPT & exploit a bug, violating OpenAI’s terms of use. Wow.
Read more: OpenAI moves to dismiss New York Times suit, alleging it “paid someone to hack” ChatGPT & exploit a bug, violating OpenAI’s terms of use. Wow.In its just filed motion to dismiss the lawsuit, OpenAI unleashed on the New York Times. I can’t remember reading a brief as hard-hitting from the opening paragraphs as this one. “The allegations in the Times’s Complaint do not meet its famously rigorous journalisticstandards. The truth, which will come out in the course of this…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls AI “transformative new technology” in response to New York Times lawsuit
Read more: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls AI “transformative new technology” in response to New York Times lawsuitFascinating answer by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the New York Times copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI. Nadella describes AI as a “new transformative technology,” and defers to the courts’ resolution of the cases and whether the training is fair use.
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New York Times article finds more “memorized” AI works by Midjourney, ChatGPT, Bing
Read more: New York Times article finds more “memorized” AI works by Midjourney, ChatGPT, BingIn yet another stunning article, this one titled “We Asked AI to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image,” the New York Times provided more examples of “memorized” visual works, which resulted from prompts, including some nonspecific ones, on Midjourney (5 examples), ChatGPT (2 examples), and Microsoft Bing (2 examples). The AI generated works…
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New York Times reports on OpenAI’s blog post refuting New York Times copyright claims v. OpenAI. How’s that for getting meta?
Read more: New York Times reports on OpenAI’s blog post refuting New York Times copyright claims v. OpenAI. How’s that for getting meta?In a New York Times article titled “OpenAI Says New York Times Lawsuit Against It Is ‘Without Merit,’” the New York Times reported about OpenAI’s stunning blog post that attempted to refute the claims in the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI. We summarized the details of OpenAI’s response to the NYT lawsuit. The…
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OpenAI defends itself: training is fair use & regurgitation is “rare bug” that New York Times may have exploited
Read more: OpenAI defends itself: training is fair use & regurgitation is “rare bug” that New York Times may have exploitedIn a blog post, OpenAI forcefully defended itself from the lawsuit the New York Times filed against it and Microsoft on Dec. 27, 2023. This is a stunning response to a lawsuit. Parties, especially corporate defendants, usually are tight-lipped about litigation and save their responses for the litigation in court. The most stunning part of…
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How did the New York Times figure out the glitch in GPT-4 for Exhibit J in its lawsuit v. OpenAI?
Read more: How did the New York Times figure out the glitch in GPT-4 for Exhibit J in its lawsuit v. OpenAI?The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI sent shockwaves across the business and media sector. Although a threat of a lawsuit had been revealed months ago, the Complaint filed by the NYT was cogent and chock-full of examples of alleged infringement. If OpenAI was trying to negotiate a licensing deal with the…
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Exhibit J to New York Times Complaint provides “One Hundred Examples of GPT-4 Memorizing Content from the New York Times”
Read more: Exhibit J to New York Times Complaint provides “One Hundred Examples of GPT-4 Memorizing Content from the New York Times”Exhibit J to The New York Times’s Complaint against Microsoft and OpenAI allegedly provides “One Hundred Examples of GPT-4 Memorizing Content from The New York Times.” In 127 pages. Wow! UPDATE: This is an impressive collection of alleged infringement. We discuss the apparent process by which the New York Times generated these examples, in our…