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US judge explores relevance of newsroom chatbot to OpenAI, Microsoft defense

By Emma Whitford ( August 25, 2025, 20:12 GMT | Insight) -- The way New York Times staff use an internal ChatGPT tool is irrelevant to the question of whether OpenAI and Microsoft illegally used Times reporting to train chatbot models, the newspaper says. But the newspaper’s ChatExplorer bot has sparked the interest of a federal magistrate judge in New York, who is taking a closer look at whether its chat logs could detail legitimate, creative uses of protected content.  The way New York Times staff use an internal ChatGPT tool is irrelevant to the question of whether OpenAI and Microsoft illegally used Times reporting to train chatbot models, the newspaper says....

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