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The filings come from the suit the Times brought against both companies in late 2023
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Judge Sidney Stein of the Southern District of New York is weighing summary judgment motions, and documents are being unsealed as he does.
Key facts
- Nick Turley, who ran the ChatGPT team, wrote in June 2023 that AI posed an "existential threat" to publishers, and in February 2024 that AI products "will get more and more substitutive as they get
- Judge Sidney Stein of the Southern District of New York is weighing summary judgment motions, and documents are being unsealed as he
- The filings come from the suit the Times brought against both companies in late 2023, since joined by eleven other publishers
- At OpenAI, a staffer told president Greg Brockman about building "hack” to bypass the NYT paywall
Summary
Documents unsealed Thursday come from the New York Times' copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft. A 2023 Microsoft memo warned the public would see models "hoovering up" their work as "theft of unprecedented proportions. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified that anything paywalled should be licensed by whoever wants to use it. Microsoft employees discussed whether OpenAI's use of news articles amounted to "the largest theft of labor in human history," and could set off a "doom loop" that degraded the models they were building, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday and reported by the New York Times. The filings come from the suit the Times brought against both companies in late 2023, since joined by eleven other publishers.
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