At an event organised by Bloomberg, at Davos (2024), Sam Altman says he was surprised by the NYT suit against Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright violations on the basis of certain examples where the model regurgitates verbatim their copyright material which could have been used for training the model.

He says that a single source of training does not move the needle for OpenAI that much.

Regurgitation, he says, is a rare thing. They keep on working on this to bring this to zero.

Training is for fair use and they collaborate with news organisations and create opportunities for them to monetize their content. In fact, they were in negotiations with OpenAI before the filing of lawsuit.