The NYT’s AI Lawsuit Hinges on a Misleading Claim—And Nobody Noticed

The New York Times argues that AI models store copyrighted material, but their key example is not proof of that; it’s proof that AI recalls what the internet knows. So why did the NYT bury this fact?

The New York Times Company has an ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, filed in December 2023. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI's language models were trained on the Times' copyrighted conten…