Artificial intelligence doesn’t need vast quantities of training data from publishers like The New York Times Co., according to OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, in a response to allegations his startup is poaching copyrighted material.
“There is this belief held by some people that you need all my training data and my training data is so valuable,” Altman said Tuesday at Bloomberg House at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. “Actually, that is generally not the case. We do not want to train on the New York Times data, for example.”
The ChatGPT maker is in the midst of a major push to secure access to news content after the Times last month sued the startup and Microsoft Corp., its biggest investor, for allegedly causing billions of dollars in damage over copyright infringement. Such partnerships are key to OpenAI’s future as it balances the need for timely, accurate data to develop its models with public scrutiny about where that data is sourced from.
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