I am not sure that reading even a verbatim NYT article from say 2017 that is in the training data is a replacement for reading the NYT which is mostly current news. So it is not similar to how news orgs sued Google for showing their content in real time. It is still copyright infringement of course, I am not siding with OpenAI here.
ChatGPT can replace the NYT archives (a paid service?) though.
ChatGPT can replace the NYT archives (a paid service?) though.