Unpaywalled article, the lawsuit.

(I don't have a law degree, this is not legal advice, my background is going through a US copyright law course many years ago.) I've read most of the lawsuit and skimmed through the rest, some quick thoughts on the allegations:

Memorisation: when ChatGPT outputs text that closely copies original NYT content, this is clearly a copyright infringement. I think it's clear that OpenAI & Microsoft should be paying everyone whose work their LLMs reproduce.
Training: it's not clear to me whether training LLMs on copyrighted content is a copyright infringement under the current US copyright law. I think lawmakers should introduce regulations to make it an infringement, but I wouldn't think the courts should consider it to be an infringement under the current laws (although I might not be familiar with all relevant case law).
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First published:
December 27th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uuwLZ9XLoziagfupW/nyt-is-suing-openai-and-microsoft-for-alleged-copyright

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“NYT is suing OpenAI&Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement; some thoughts” by Mikhail Samin

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“NYT is suing OpenAI&Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement; some thoughts” by Mikhail Samin