In summary
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized the New York Times’ lawsuit for copyright infringement, calling the newspaper “on the wrong side of history.”
- Altman suggested a compensation model for creators, in which micropayments can be received for the use of their work and image in the generation of content.
- The New York Times lawsuit is part of a series of litigation against OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement related to the use of articles and other materials to train AI models.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the New York Times’ lawsuit against ChatGPT developer for copyright infringement puts the historical on the wrong side of history, amid lingering questions about how the media industry should confront the rise of AI.
Altman’s comments came Wednesday during an interview with New York Times reporter and host Andrew Ross Sorkin at the newspaper’s annual DealBook summit in New York.
The lawsuit, filed in December, accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of using New York Times articles to train AI models without obtaining proper licenses or permissions. Although Altman avoided going into specific details, he addressed the issue in a general way and took aim at the newspaper.
“I don’t believe in (it being okay) to show up at someone’s house as a guest and be rude,” Altman said. “But I will say that I think the New York Times is on the wrong side of history in many ways.”
In response to those allegations, Ian Crosby, a partner at Susman Godfrey and senior counsel at the New York Times, told Decrypt that Altman “correctly recognized that writers, photographers, artists and other creators deserve to be paid for the work they create.” .
“What you don’t understand is that this is precisely why copyright law exists, and there is a way to build new technologies that complies with the law and the rights of copyright holders,” they said. “History has repeatedly shown that it is entirely possible to do both.”
Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are trained on massive data sets, including books, websites, and articles, to learn language patterns and structures. Although LLMs do not retain specific articles, the New York Times stated that OpenAI paid particular attention to their articles.
“While defendants engaged in large-scale copying from many sources, they placed special emphasis on Times content when constructing their LLMs, revealing a preference that recognizes the value of those works,” New York Times lawyers said in the lawsuit. .
In January, OpenAI rejected the New York Times’ claims, saying the newspaper was not telling the full story. The AI giant suggested that the Times adapted its prompts to have ChatGPT generate responses that would prove its claims.
“It appears they intentionally manipulated the prompts, often including long excerpts from articles, to make our model regurgitate,” OpenAI said. “Even when such prompts are used, our models typically do not behave in the way that the New York Times implies, suggesting that they either instructed the model to regurgitate or selected their examples from many trials.”
The New York Times lawsuit is one of several targeting OpenAI for copyright infringement. Others suing OpenAI for copyright infringement include “Game of Thrones” author George RR Martin, John Grisham, the Authors Guild and comedian Sarah Silverman.
On Monday, a federal judge granted a motion by Authors Guild attorneys to force OpenAI to produce text messages and direct messages on X (formerly Twitter) from OpenAI employees who used the social media platform for work purposes.
To help prevent future copyright infringement disputes over AI, Altman called for a fair system to compensate creators for the use of their work and image. He suggested an opt-in model where creators could earn micropayments every time their name, image or style is used to generate content.
“I think the discussion about fair use or not is at the wrong level,” Altman told the DealBook audience Wednesday. “Of course, we strongly believe that: you need one of these right-to-learn approaches. But the part I really agree with is that we need to find new economic models where creators can have new sources of income.”
Edited by Andrew Hayward
Editor’s note: Adds response from the New York Times
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