OpenAI and journalism

Our discussions with The New York Occasions had gave the impression to be progressing constructively by our final communication on December 19. The negotiations centered on a high-value partnership round real-time show with attribution in ChatGPT, during which The New York Occasions would achieve a brand new approach to join with their current and new readers, and our customers would achieve entry to their reporting. We had defined to The New York Occasions that, like every single supply, their content material did not meaningfully contribute to the coaching of our current fashions and in addition would not be sufficiently impactful for future coaching. Their lawsuit on December 27—which we realized about by studying The New York Occasions—got here as a shock and disappointment to us.

Alongside the way in which, they’d talked about seeing some regurgitation of their content material however repeatedly refused to share any examples, regardless of our dedication to analyze and repair any points. We’ve demonstrated how significantly we deal with this as a precedence, resembling in July after we took down a ChatGPT feature instantly after we realized it may reproduce real-time content material in unintended methods.

Curiously, the regurgitations The New York Occasions induced look like from years-old articles which have proliferated on multiple third–party websites. It appears they deliberately manipulated prompts, typically together with prolonged excerpts of articles, with the intention to get our mannequin to regurgitate. Even when utilizing such prompts, our fashions don’t sometimes behave the way in which The New York Occasions insinuates, which suggests they both instructed the mannequin to regurgitate or cherry-picked their examples from many makes an attempt.

Regardless of their claims, this misuse shouldn’t be typical or allowed person exercise, and isn’t an alternative to The New York Occasions. Regardless, we’re frequently making our programs extra immune to adversarial assaults to regurgitate coaching information, and have already made a lot progress in our current fashions.