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OpenAI claims New York Times copyright lawsuit is without merit


OpenAI has published a public response to The New York Times' lawsuit against it over copyright, claiming that the case is without merit.

In the response, posted this afternoon to OpenAI’s blog, the company reiterates its view that training AI models using publicly available data from the web — including news articles like The Times’ — is fair use. In a separate suit, thousands of novelists, including Jonathan Franzen and John Grisham, claim OpenAI sourced their work as training data without their permission or knowledge. The Associated Press struck a deal in July with OpenAI, and Axel Springer, the German publisher that owns Politico and Business Insider, did likewise this month.

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