Judge calls out OpenAI's "straw man" argument in New York Times copyright suit
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- The New York Times sued OpenAI in December 2023, alleging ChatGPT outputs violate copyrights by regurgitating news articles.
- OpenAI argued the lawsuit should have been raised in 2020, citing a NYT article from November 2020 about OpenAI analyzing internet data.
- US district judge Sidney Stein denied OpenAI's motion to dismiss, stating OpenAI failed to prove NYT knew ChatGPT would violate copyrights before its 2022 release.
- Judge Stein dismissed OpenAI's claim that it was 'common knowledge' ChatGPT was trained on NYT articles in 2020, as it didn't prove NYT was aware of specific infringements.
- The judge agreed with NYT that OpenAI provided no evidence the newspaper knew how ChatGPT would perform before its release, rejecting OpenAI's 'straw man' argument about NYT's duty to act promptly.