In late December, The New York Times sued OpenAI and its close collaborator and investor, Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on the Times’ content. Today, OpenAI gave a public response, claiming — unsurprisingly — that the Times’ lawsuit is meritless.
In a letter published this afternoon on OpenAI’s official blog, the company reiterates its view that training AI models using publicly available data from the web — including articles like the Times’ — is fair use. In other words, in creating generative AI systems like GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, which “learn” from billions of examples of artwork, ebooks, …
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