AI Glossary

OpenAI's conversational assistant built on the GPT family of models, which popularized generative AI among the general public.

The phase of a dispute in which the parties exchange evidence. In AI disputes it has become apparent that operational records and product outputs can be requested by a court (e.g. an order to hand over millions of ChatGPT conversations).

A series of large language models from OpenAI that power ChatGPT, among other things; newer generations add multimodal capabilities and more advanced reasoning.

A court order requiring an AI company to preserve and segregate records (logs) of a system's outputs as potential evidence. In NYT v. OpenAI, the court ordered ChatGPT logs to be preserved and later allowed routine deletion to resume.

A lawsuit filed by The New York Times in December 2023 in a federal court in Manhattan, in which the newspaper claims that OpenAI and Microsoft unlawfully used millions of its articles to train the ChatGPT and Copilot models and that the systems reproduce protected content verbatim. OpenAI, by contrast, argues that the plaintiff deliberately steered the models with deceptive prompts in order to elicit the reproduction of text.