Over the past year, technology company OpenAI has asked the court to dismiss the New York Times’ copyright infringement lawsuit against them. OpenAI claims the media ‘hacked’ chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence systems to create misleading evidence for the case.

OpenAI made the claim in Manhattan federal court on Monday, NDTV reported.

US media sued OpenAI and its investor Microsoft last December, alleging that ChatGPT used a New York Times article without permission to train chatbots to provide information to their users.

The lawsuit says OpenAI and Microsoft should be liable for more than hundreds of billions of dollars in damages. Readers can get New York Times articles without paying. Thanks to ChatGPT’s work. That is, the New York Times is losing revenue from reader clicks on ads in addition to subscriptions.

OpenAI said in Manhattan federal court that the Times’ allegations violated its journalistic standards. The truth that will emerge in this case is that the Times paid someone to hack ChatGPT.

Representatives of the New York Times were not available for comment.