It's the Brian Laird

show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

Now various developments in the news recently

about artificial intelligence.

Did you know the New York Times is suing the makers of chat

GPT, accusing them of allowing its AI role. is suing the makers of chat gp.

Accusing them of allowing its AI robots

to plagiarize from the Times.

Did you know Michael Cohen, the former Trump attorney,

now says he inadvertently filed four statements in a legal case because the falsehoods were generated

by AI and he didn't catch them at first.

I didn't know lawyers use robots to write official legal things and Europe has jumped ahead of the United States with a new set of rules for how AI can and cannot be used.

So we'll talk about those in what I think will be very interesting AI catch up now. Made

by me and at least one other human, Kat Zechresky, who covers AI policy and other tech-related policy for the Washington Post.

Kat, thanks for coming on with us. Welcome to WNYC.

Thank you so much for having me on the show.

Can we start briefly with the lawsuit by the New York Times against open AI makers of

chat gp.

The suit alleges quote mass copyright infringement unquote because the system is designed to, quote, exploit and in many cases

retain large portions of the copyrighted expression contained in those works, and it refers to, quote,

unlawful copying and use of the time's uniquely

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