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The NYT and their lawyers are confused, then: > Defendants’ generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) tools rely on large-language models (“LLMs”) that were
by lelandfe 2y ago
The NYT and their lawyers are confused, then:
> Defendants’ generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) tools rely on large-language models (“LLMs”) that were built by copying and using millions of The Times’s copyrighted news articles, in-depth investigations, opinion pieces, reviews, how-to guides, and more.
https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec2023.pdf https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec20...
This case is still ongoing a year later.
- Workaccount2 2y agoThey need to be confused because they need the judge to be confused too. NYT isn't suing because LLMs will print out NYT articles for free. They are suing because LLMs are poised to be better/more favorable news reporters than them. It's a long term survival case, not a copyright one (despite that being the weapon used in the fight)
- munchler 2y agoI agree. That said, if AI puts journalism out of business, then AI will quickly run out of content to train on and report. I think this is a situation where technology has gotten way out ahead of the law.