OpenAI accuses NYT of hacking ChatGPT to set up copyright suit
OpenAI is now boldly claiming that The New York Times "paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products" like ChatGPT to "set up" a lawsuit against the leading AI maker.
In a court filing Monday, OpenAI alleged that "100 examples in which some version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model supposedly generated several paragraphs of Times content as outputs in response to user prompts" do not reflect how normal people use ChatGPT. Instead, it allegedly took The Times "tens of thousands of attempts to generate" these supposedly "highly anomalous results" by "targeting and exploiting a bug" that OpenAI claims it is now "committed to addressing."
According to OpenAI this activity amounts to "contrived attacks" by a "hired gun"—who allegedly hacked OpenAI models until they hallucinated fake NYT content or regurgitated training data to replicate NYT articles. NYT allegedly paid for these "attacks" to gather evidence to support The Times' claims that OpenAI's products imperil its journalism by allegedly regurgitating reporting and stealing The Times' audiences.
