New York Times Refutes OpenAI’s Claim of Hacking ChatGPT Prompts

The New York Times Co. disputed OpenAI Inc.'s claim that the newspaper “hacked” ChatGPT to produce near-verbatim articles at the center of the newspaper’s copyright infringement lawsuit.

The Times could elicit memorized stories from the artificial intelligence company’s ChatGPT-4 large language model “with the first few rods or sentences of Times articles,” the newspaper argued in a memorandum filed Monday in New York federal court in response to OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the suit.

“Yet in OpenAI’s telling, The Times engaged in wrongdoing by detecting OpenAI’s theft of The Times’s own copyrighted content,” the reply said.

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