Among all of the public indicators suggesting that we’re moving deeper into uncharted territory with respect to generative AI, a potential New York Times lawsuit against Open AI — maker of ChatGPT — might be the most glaring.
According to reporting from NPR, the Times is mulling legal action against the tech company after negotiations between the two organizations over a licensing arrangement, whereby OpenAI could access the newspaper’s archives and reporting, went south.
Chief among the concerns raised by the Times is that Open AI would become “a direct competitor with the paper by creating text that answers questions based on the original reporting and writing of the paper’s staff,” NPR, whose reporters spoke with several Times attorneys, reports.
