OpenAI’s aggressive court tactics test First Amendment limits

OpenAI’s Aggressive Court Tactics Test First Amendment Limits

OpenAI’s aggressive discovery request demanding The New York Times hand over its reporters’ files could be a hardball tactic to run up the newspaper’s legal bills or stall its copyright infringement suit.

The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December 2023, accusing them of infringing copyrights by plugging articles into training datasets for generative artificial intelligence models. Firing back, OpenAI requested journalists’ reporting materials for each of the roughly 10 million contested articles. “If this goes through with any major level of success, they’re certainly setting things up for copyright infringement cases ...