A group of newspapers, including the New York Times and New York Daily News, has asked a federal court in Manhattan to sanction OpenAI in their high-stakes copyright dispute. The newspapers claim that OpenAI lied to the court about its ability to search its systems for proof that it misused millions of their articles in AI training.

Allegations of Deception

The newspapers told the court that OpenAI falsely claimed it could not search its large language models for their copyrighted material, while hiding that it had done so before the first lawsuit was filed. They also alleged that OpenAI deleted billions of relevant ChatGPT conversations or made them unsearchable.

The lawsuit, first filed by the Times in 2023, accused OpenAI and its largest financial backer Microsoft of using millions of articles without permission to train the large language model behind OpenAI’s popular chatbot ChatGPT. The case is one of many brought by copyright owners against tech companies for allegedly misusing their material to train AI systems.

Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.