New York Times vs. OpenAI
ChatGPT vs. NY Times: The Lawsuit Doomed to Fail
Or: Why lawyers should try to understand Generative AI
Is the NY Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI some kind of clever PR stunt or are they serious?
Because that lawsuit seems to imply that large language models (LLMs) like the ones running behind ChatGPT are using the NY Times’ content directly in generating responses…
… which is a fundamental misunderstanding.
(and maybe, just maybe, the NY Times’ lawsuit has something to do with the fact that OpenAI just made a deal with multinational mass media company Axel Springer?)
The Misconception of AI
We’ve gone through three years of “WTF? AI can do THIS?!” and since late 2022 there is an unprecedented mainstream adaption of AI tools, but still many people don’t understand what’s behind the new magic toys.
Without knowing how AI works, it’s not a good idea to judge.
Language Models Are Not Replicating Content
The key misunderstanding in the NY Times lawsuit lies in the perception of how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT use the data they are trained on.
