The Future of AI and Copyright Law
In 2023, The New York Times sued OpenAI after the organization used Times articles to train large-language models (LLMs), on which its generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) services, including ChatGPT, rely. These LLMs incorporate information from datasets to build patterns and word recognition within a specific context. The complaint claims that OpenAI infringed on its copyright by utilizing Times material without permission to create these datasets, thus “build[ing] substitutive...