Why the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI is just a negotiating tactic
Why the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI is just a negotiating tactic
The lawsuit is futile and disingenuous. The real goal is: How can we squeeze some money out of OpenAI?
News broke this morning that The New York Times has sued Open AI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The newspaper company says the use of Times’ content for training ChatGPT and Copilot is an “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.”
The suit goes on to say that OpenAI wants to “free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism.”
I think the opposite is true: The New York Times wants to free-ride on OpenAI’s massive investment in AI.
The lawsuit comes not after the NYT realized that its content was being used (along with thousands of other newspapers) for training OpenAI’s LLM-based AI — that happened a year ago — but after months-long negotiations over the Times’ demand that it be paid to be part of the training data have stalled.
The lawsuit is bogus for three reasons.
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