Comment Re:A question of fair use (Score 1, Troll) 157
LLMs do not make verbatim copies of copyrighted works that are them reproduced without permission
Except this isn't true. The article includes cases where ChatGPT would reproduce NYT articles verbatim with the correct prompts. For example, you could ask it to give you the first paragraph of such and such an article, and it would do so. Asking for subsequent paragraphs would get it to reproduce the whole article.
Additionally, if I or LLMs falsely attribute facts to the Times, there may be a violation of slander or libel laws. Without ill intent, a simple retraction of the statement is satisfactory.
That's not the way the law works. The kind of lawsuit you're talking about is supposed to correct a single big statement. If there's a pattern of misbehavior, the law allows the wronged party to ask for an injunction, where the court orders the wrongdoer to stop what they're doing. It's hard to see how you could do anything else with something like ChatGPT, since each instance will repeat the misbehavior of each other instance. It shouldn't be up to NYT to play Whack-A-Mole and find every instance of ChatGPT claiming its hallucinations are supported by NYT articles, especially since most uses of ChatGPT don't produce any public trail.