TECH - OpenAI CEO Denies Need For New York Times Data Amidst Copyright Infringement Lawsuit: 'We Do Not Want…' | Benzinga
Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-parent OpenAI, has refuted the need for extensive training data from publishers such as The New York Times Co. (NYSE:NYT) after the startup got embroiled in a copyright infringement lawsuit with the media company.
What Happened: While attending the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, Altman dismissed the necessity for substantial amounts of training data from the Times.
"There is this belief held by some people that you need all my training data and my training data is so valuable," he said, adding, “Actually, that is generally not the case. We do not want to train on the New York Times data, for example," reported Bloomberg.
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