OpenAI Says New York Times ‘Not Telling the Full Story’ in Suit

OpenAI publicly addressed a lawsuit from the New York Times in a strongly worded blog post on Monday, saying the newspaper’s complaint was “not telling the full story” about its use of Times data.

The suit, filed in December, claims OpenAI and its largest investor Microsoft Corp. relied on copyrighted articles to train the startup’s popular ChatGPT chatbot and other artificial intelligence features. The complaint pointed to examples of the chatbot reproducing chunks of text pulled almost verbatim from New York Times stories.

OpenAI said the sort of “regurgitation” the paper referred to in its recent lawsuit is a ...