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ChatGPT Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill


The New York Times is suing OpenAI for copyright violations. ChatGPT, meanwhile, is citing a notorious plagiarizer's copies of NYT articles.

Back in June, TheNew York Times published a fascinating investigation by its award-winning tech reporter Kashmir Hill about how automakers and various apps are secretly selling data about your driving habits to car insurance companies. Back in 2020, a BuzzFeed News investigation found that the site made significant amounts of money by copy-pasting work by publications — including the NYT, the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, Bloomberg, and the Associated Press — and running ads on the stolen content. "As our terms of service and the law make clear, no one is permitted towholesalecopy Times content for commercial purposes without our permission or payment," an NYT spokesperson told us in response to questions about this story.

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