New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement [N]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/dec/27/new-york-times-openai-microsoft-lawsuit

The lawsuit alleges: *"Powered by LLMs containing copies of Times content, Defendants’ GenAI tools can generate output that recites Times content verbatim, closely summarizes it, and mimics its expressive style"*. The lawsuit seeks billions in damages and wants to see these chatbots destroyed.

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I don't know if summaries and style mimicking fall under copyright law, but couldn't verbatim quoting be prevented? I proposed doing this a while ago in this subreddit:

> Can't OpenAI simply check the output …

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