About the NYT lawsuit showing GPT can repeat copyrighted articles word for word.
Has this happened?
Yes 29 (28%)Not sure 50 (49%)No 24 (23%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About the NYT lawsuit showing GPT can repeat copyrighted articles word for word.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
It doesn’t seem that surprising; compared to entire NYT articles, poems are short, structured and more likely to be shared in multiple places across the web.
I’m more surprised that it can repeat 100 articles; if that behaviour is consistent in larger sample sizes and beyond just NYT dataset (which might be repeated on the web more than other sources, causing overfitting), that would be impressive.
You could imagine at some point a large enough GPT5 or 6 or 7 will be able to memorize verbatim every corner of the web.