In the OpenAI vs. New York Times trial, OpenAI claims that ``The New York Times hacked ChatGPT to extract its own articles''

The New York Times, a major American newspaper company, is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for using New York Times content to train ChatGPT and other AI systems. In response, OpenAI claimed that 'The New York Times generated evidence using prompts that violate OpenAI's Terms of Service.'

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In December 2023, the New York Times told OpenAI and Microsoft that ``the large-scale language models that form the basis of generative AI such as ChatGPT and Copilot are trained using hundreds of pieces of New York Times content; As a result, AI was able to produce output that imitated the New York Times' style of expression.As a result, the New York Times' sources of income, such as subscription fees, license fees, advertising, and affiliate income, were lost.'' I sued Microsoft for copyright infringement.

Major daily newspaper New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement - GIGAZINE

The New York Times accuses ``OpenAI and Microsoft of trying to take advantage of the New York Times' huge investment in journalism and create a newspaper replacement.''

Meanwhile, OpenAI alleges to the court that ``The New York Times made tens of thousands of attempts to generate anomalous results with ChatGPT.'' According to OpenAI, normal use of ChatGPT will not output sentences that imitate the expression style of the New York Times.

OpenAI claims that ``The New York Times used ChatGPT to generate abnormal results by using deceptive prompts that clearly violate OpenAI's Terms of Service.'' He went on to call the series of operations by the New York Times ``hacking,'' saying, ``It is clear that the New York Times paid someone to hack OpenAI's products,'' and ``The New York Times' claims are in line with journalistic standards.'' 'It doesn't meet the requirements,' he said.

Please note that OpenAI has not disclosed the prompts that the New York Times used to manipulate ChatGPT's system.

OpenAI says, ``Our AI system uses copyrighted materials fairly, and this lawsuit by the New York Times threatens the growth of the multi-trillion dollar (hundreds of trillions of yen) AI market.'' .

In the case OpenAI v. New York Times, OpenAI claims that the use of copyrighted materials in AI training constitutes fair use .

OpenAI counters that ``The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying the article'' and claims that training is fair use - GIGAZINE

On the other hand, the New York Times said, ``OpenAI's strange mislabeling of 'hacking' suggests evidence that New York Times copyrighted material was stolen and copied to train OpenAI's products.'' I criticized it.