New York Times bans OpenAI’s GPTbot from using its content to train AI
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Last week, reports emerged that the New York Times may take legal action against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI as its AI models allegedly use content published on the website, which is NYT's intellectual property, to train its AI models. While that may not have happened so far, the major news publisher has now decided to ban OpenAI's web crawler from viewing content on its website. The move means that the website's content cannot be used to train any of OpenAI's AI foundational models.As per a report by The Verge, NYT has blocked OpenAI's web crawler GPTbot from searching and indexing the contents of the website. The report highlights the robot.txt page of the publication which clearly shows that the bot has been disallowed. Using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine that lets users...