🧵 The historic NYT v. OpenAI lawsuit filed this morning, as broken down by me, an IP and AI lawyer, general counsel, and longtime tech person and enthusiast.

Tl;dr - It's the best case yet alleging that generative AI is copyright infringement. Thread. 👇

1/ First, the complaint clearly lays out the claim of copyright infringement, highlighting the 'access & substantial similarity' between NYT's articles and ChatGPT's outputs. Key fact: NYT is the single biggest proprietary data set in Common Crawl used to train GPT.

Cecilia Ziniti Cecilia Ziniti if I read this correctly, they aren't even alleging that OAI directly scraped NYT articles, they are saying that because OAI *used* Common Crawl, they are infringing through Common Crawl?

So essentially anyone using CC to train their dataset will have similar…