The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging its articles were copied to train their models and that the models' outputs reproduce them. The case is part of the consolidated OpenAI litigation in New York, and no settlement has been disclosed.
Both input (training) and output (regurgitation) theories; deployers of the models face downstream claims.
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