At the end of 2023, The New York Times would sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement for training on millions of its articles. OpenAI’s response in early January, written by the legal team, delivered an unusually feisty hit back, accusing the Times of “intentionally manipulating our models” to generate evidence for its argument. That same week, OpenAI’s policy team delivered a submission to the UK House of Lords communications and digital select committee, saying that it would be “impossible” for OpenAI to train its cutting-edge models without copyrighted materials. After the media
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