With the New York Times (“NYT”) issuing a claim against OpenAI in 2023, the artificial intelligence operators have recently offered access to 20 million user conversations as part of the disclosure process in their tense copyright infringement lawsuit. The NYT, however, aim to have access to a much broader disclosure of 120 million chat logs in order to quantify examples of OpenAI’s model ChatGPT plagiarising the NYT’s journalism.
OpenAI have responded with concerns about user privacy should they release as many as 120 million chat logs, with claims that a sample of 20 million logs would be sufficiently representative of the platform’s outputs without compromising the privacy of its users.
Industry analysts have opined that a ruling in favour of OpenAI would help to streamline the discovery process in similar cases, and a ruling in favour of the NYT would pave the way for heavy scrutiny and potential increase in copyright protections where AI generates outputs based on user inputs.
As the case progresses through the US federal courts, the unprecedented nature of this case highlights the importance of protecting your intellectual property rights and to be mindful of using artificial intelligence, whether for personal or wider use.
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