OpenAi is appealing a decision in a copyright process filed by the newspaper New York Times which requires the company indefinitely preserve the answers generated by ChatgPT, arguing that this requirement conflicts with the privacy commitments made with users.
Last month, a court determined that OpenAi should preserve and separate all answers after the Times Asked these data to be kept.
“We will fight against any requirement that compromises the privacy of our users; this is a fundamental principle,” said OpenAi CEO Sam Altman, in an X post on Thursday.
“We believe this (the requirement of Times) It was inadequate and establishes a bad precedent. ”
According to a lawsuit, a request to district judge Sidney Stein to nullify the data preservation order issued in May was made on June 3. THE New York Times He refused to comment.
In 2023, the newspaper sued OpenAi and Microsoft, accusing them of using millions of their articles without permission to train the language model behind their popular chatbot.
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Stein stated, in a court decision of April, that the Times He presented a plausible case that OpenAi and Microsoft induce users to violate copyright of the newspaper.
The opinion explained an earlier decision that rejected parts of an OpenAi and Microsoft motion to end the process, saying that the “numerous” and “widely disseminated” examples of chatgpt responses that reproduced content from the articles of Times justified the continuity of the case.
