OpenAI Doesn’t Want to Train on New York Times Data, Altman Says

Artificial intelligence doesn’t need vast quantities of training data from publishers like The New York Times Co., according to OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, in a response to allegations his startup is poaching copyrighted material.

“There is this belief held by some people that you need all my training data and my training data is so valuable,” Altman said Tuesday at Bloomberg House at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. “Actually, that is generally not the case. We do not want to train on the New York Times data, for example.”

The ChatGPT maker is ...