OpenAI has accused The New York Times Company of paying someone to "hack" ChatGPT to generate verbatim paragraphs from articles in its newspaper. By hack, presumably the biz means: Logged in as normal and asked it annoying questions. In December, the NYT sued OpenAI and its backer Microsoft, accusing the pair of scraping the newspaper's website without permission to train large language models. The lawsuit included what was said to be evidence of ChatGPT reproducing whole passages of New York Ti...