[9question1]

"And even then, they had to feed the tool portions of the very articles they sought to elicit verbatim passages of, virtually all of which already appear on multiple public websites."

Getting OpenAI to spit out part of the prompt you provided in its output, and then claiming that it had been trained on that, seems dishonest. It shouldn't be illegal, but it also shouldn't be the basis of a successful lawsuit unless there's other context missing here.

[pavon]

They passed in a few sentences of an article and then ChatGPT reproduced the rest of the article. OpenAI's PR on this issue has been extremely misleading and this "hack" claim is just a continuation of that.

[eigenket]

What OpenAI claimes here does not seem to be true. Here is an article where ars technica tried it

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/ny-times-sues-op...

And this is a screenshot of their session with copilot

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Scree...