New filings in The New York Times‘ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft allege that OpenAI’s president was told about a method for bypassing the newspaper’s paywall and responded with apparent approval. One Microsoft executive commented internally that OpenAI’s scraping of copyrighted material amounted to “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.”
\n\nThe Financial Times reports that the New York Times and other media outlets are seeking billions of dollars in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing the companies infringed copyright by training AI models on publishers’ content without permission. Lawyers for the Times filed new evidence Thursday in a case that turns on whether AI systems built on copyrighted journalism amount to theft or fair use.
\n\nThe filing alleges that “defendants repeatedly copied millions of . . . copyrighted articles in their entirety without permission to produce substitutive commercial AI products.”
\n\nOne new detail: OpenAI allegedly used techniques to get around the Times‘ paywall, and Greg Brockman, the company’s co-founder and now its president, knew about it. An employee told Brockman about “a hack to get around NY Times paywall,” the filing says. Brockman’s reported response was “ah nice.”
\n\nThe filing also cites writing attributed to Brockman from around 2017…
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