OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned the lawsuit by the New York Occasions towards the ChatGPT developer for copyright infringement places the storied publication on the fallacious aspect of historical past, amid persistent questions on how the media trade ought to cope with the rise of AI.
Altman’s feedback got here throughout an interview with the New York Occasions journalist and host Andrew Ross Sorkin on the newspaper’s annual DealBook Summit in New York Metropolis on Wednesday.
The lawsuit, filed in December, accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of utilizing New York Occasions articles to coach AI fashions with out acquiring correct licensing or permission. Whereas Altman averted going into specifics, he addressed the subject broadly—and took intention on the paper.
“I do not imagine in exhibiting up in another person’s home as a visitor and being impolite,” Altman mentioned. “However I’ll say, I feel the New York Occasions is on the fallacious aspect of historical past in some ways.”
Massive language fashions (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are skilled on huge datasets—together with books, web sites, and articles—to study language patterns and constructions. Whereas LLMs don’t retain particular articles, the New York Occasions claimed that OpenAI paid explicit consideration to their articles.
“Whereas defendants engaged in wide-scale copying from many sources, they gave Occasions content material explicit emphasis when constructing their LLMs—revealing a choice that acknowledges the worth of these works,” attorneys for the New York Occasions mentioned within the criticism.
In January, OpenAI pushed again towards the New York Occasions‘ claims, saying that the newspaper was not telling the total story. The AI large urged that the Occasions tailor-made its prompts to make ChatGPT generate responses that may show its claims.
“It appears they deliberately manipulated prompts, usually together with prolonged excerpts of articles, with a view to get our mannequin to regurgitate,” OpenAI mentioned. “Even when utilizing such prompts, our fashions don’t sometimes behave the way in which the New York Occasions insinuates, which suggests they both instructed the mannequin to regurgitate or cherry-picked their examples from many makes an attempt.”
The New York Occasions’ lawsuit is one in all a number of focusing on OpenAI for copyright infringement. Others suing OpenAI for copyright infringement embrace “Sport of Thrones” creator George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, the Authors Guild, and comic Sarah Silverman.
On Monday, a federal choose granted a movement by attorneys for the Authors Guild to compel OpenAI to supply textual content messages and direct messages on X (previously Twitter) of OpenAI workers who used the social media platform for work functions.
To assist forestall future copyright infringement disputes over AI, Altman referred to as for a good system to compensate creators for using their work and likeness. He urged an opt-in mannequin the place creators might earn micropayments each time their title, likeness, or fashion is used to generate content material.
“I feel the dialogue on honest use or not is on the fallacious stage,” Altman informed the DealBook viewers Wednesday. “In fact, we very a lot imagine in: You want one in all these right-to-learn approaches. However the half I actually agree with is we have to discover new financial fashions the place creators can have new income streams.”
Edited by Andrew Hayward
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