US artificial intelligence company OpenAI claims The New York Times hacked its products, including ChatGPT, to generate examples of copyright infringement for use in its lawsuit against it.
The company asked a federal judge in the US to dismiss parts of the lawsuit in a filing Monday in a Manhattan federal court.
OpenAI alleged that it took The New York Times "tens of thousands of attempts to generate the highly anomalous results," according to the filing.
The New York Times used "deceptive prompts that blatantly violate OpenAI's terms of use," the company said, alleging "the Times paid someone to hack OpenAI's products."
The news organization in December sued OpenAI and its backer Microsoft for copyright infringement, arguing that the companies used millions of news articles published by the organization without permission to train ChatGPT and make the chatbot smarter.
