Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Tuesday, January 9th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Open AI has responded to the New York Times's lawsuit over AI training data.

Open AI asserts training is fair use and there is an opt outout that so-called regurgitation is a rare bug and they make

the claim that the New York Times, quote, manipulated its models to get them to quote their

past articles verbatim quote while we disagree with the

claims in the New York Times lawsuit we view it as an opportunity to clarify our

business our intent and how we build our technology our position can be summed up in these four points which we flush out below

one we collaborate with news organizations and are creating new opportunities

two training is fair use but we provide an opt-out because it's the right thing to do.

Three, regurgitation is a rare bug that we are working to drive to zero and

four the New York Times is not telling the full story. Training AI models using publicly available internet

material is fair use as supported by longstanding and widely accepted

precedence. We view this principle as fair to creators necessary for

innovators and critical for U.S. competitiveness.

Memorization is a rare failure of the learning process that we are continually making progress

on, but it's more common when particular content appears more than once in training data like if pieces of it appear on

lots of different public websites. So we have measures in place to limit

inadvertent memorization and prevent regurgitation in model outputs. We also

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