OpenAI Says New York Times Used Prompt Hacking for Articles (1)

OpenAI Inc. claimed The New York Times paid someone to hack its ChatGPT models in order to generate “highly anomalous” outputs resembling old articles in a motion seeking to trim the newspaper’s copyright lawsuit.

The artificial intelligence maker said in a motion to dismiss parts of the lawsuit that evidence of its ChatGPT-4 large language model producing near verbatim New York Times stories is based on unintended data regurgitation and model hallucination—problems that the company is working to fix.

“The Times’s suggestion that the contrived attacks of its hired gun show that the Fourth Estate is somehow ...