OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the lawsuit by the New York Times against the ChatGPT developer for copyright infringement puts the storied publication on the wrong side of history, amid persistent questions about how the media industry should contend with the rise of AI.

Altman’s comments came during an interview with the New York Times journalist and host Andrew Ross Sorkin at the newspaper’s annual DealBook Summit in New York City on Wednesday.

The lawsuit, filed in December, accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of using New York Times articles to train AI models without obtaining proper licensing or permission. While Altman avoided going into specifics, he addressed the topic broadly—and took aim at the paper.

“I don’t believe in showing up in someone else’s house as a guest and being rude,” Altman said. “But I will say, I think the New York Times is on the wrong side of history in many ways.”

Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are trained on massive datasets—including books, websites, and articles—to learn language patterns and structures. While LLMs don’t retain specific articles, the New York Times claimed that OpenAI paid particular attention to their articles.

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Author: Jason Nelson