A lawsuit filed by The New York Times could lead to court-ordered destruction of ChatGPT

by João Marinotti, for The Conversation January 28, 2024January 26, 2024

OpenAI is the San Francisco-based creator behind ChatGPT. The source of the data used to train the wildly popular artificial intelligence app is at the heart of a copyright infringement case brought by The New York Times. (Ishmael Daro/Flickr, CC BY)

ON DEC. 27, 2023, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that the company committed willful copyright infringement through its generative AI tool ChatGPT. The Times claimed both that ChatGPT was unlawfully trained on vast amounts of text from its articles and that ChatGPT’s output contained language directly taken from its articles.

To remedy this, the Times asked for more than just money: It asked a federal court to order the “destruction” of ChatGPT.

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