It’s unclear whether the judge in the case is considering the request, but the New York Times had a strong response to the request.
An ongoing lawsuit by the New York Times (NYT) against OpenAI took a strange twist on July 1 when the AI firm filed documents asking the court to order the venerable publisher to prove the originality of its articles by providing detailed source materials for each copyrighted work.
According to the NYT, OpenAI used its articles to train artificial intelligence (AI) models without asking for permission or offering compensation. OpenAI has maintained that its use of materials that it “scraped” from the internet is fair.
As first spotted by TorrentFreak, on July 1 lawyers representing OpenAI filed a request with a U.S. court in New York asking the judge overseeing the case to order the New York Times “to provide discovery showing the copyrighted works are original works of authorship.”