If you've been following the The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation (1:23-cv-11195) case, you may wake up this morning worrying that New York Times lawyers will soon comb through your late‑night ChatGPT confessions. Breathe easy – they almost certainly will not. Continue Reading →

NYT Says No to Perplexity

The New York Times has put Perplexity.ai on notice: "Don't crawl our site, or else!" This is a little comical since Google has been crawling nytimes.com since the beginning of Google, but we need a distinction here. Two verbs, both terms of art: "to crawl," which means to systematically browse the web, index content, and then make it searchable through a search engine; "to scrape," which is the automated process of gathering information from the web to collect content from webpages. Continue Reading →
OpenAI has accused The New York Times of employing deceptive tactics to generate evidence for a copyright lawsuit against the AI company. In a legal filing in Manhattan federal court, OpenAI alleges that The New York Times used "deceptive prompts" to make ChatGPT reproduce the newspaper's content, which OpenAI argues violates its terms of use and undermines the integrity of the legal process. Continue Reading →
The New York Times (NYT) is contemplating legal action against OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT. The crux of the dispute lies in copyright concerns surrounding the use of the newspaper's content. Continue Reading →