OpenAI publicly responded to a copyright lawsuit filed against it by The New York Times last month. It claims the Times is "not telling the full story" and that the Times manipulated ChatGPT prompts to include verbatim copies of articles. OpenAI argues its models don't typically behave this way, and the Times may have cherry-picked examples. It acknowledges removing a feature that unintentionally reproduced content but maintains AI needs access to human knowledge.