The New York Times, in its lawsuit against OpenAI, seeks the deletion of all language models trained with data that includes any Times articles.
Should that happen, it is likely that a precedent will be set that prevents other companies from including articles from any newspaper in their training data.
At the same time, it will be impossible to enforce such a provision against open source models, some of which will have anonymous authors.
Effective altruists like @EliezerYudkowsky have often criticized open source AI as dangerous and believe that limitations on the distribution of model architectures and weights are preferable.
This market resolves to YES if:
The lawsuit is decided in the New York Times' favor, either by judgment or by settlement
What are the current odds for Will the New York Times v. OpenAI suit cause a setback for AI safety??
Manifold Markets prices No at 91% as of September 8, 2026.
When does Will the New York Times v. OpenAI suit cause a setback for AI safety? resolve?
Will the New York Times v. OpenAI suit cause a setback for AI safety? is scheduled to resolve on January 2, 2027.
How is Will the New York Times v. OpenAI suit cause a setback for AI safety? settled?
Manifold Markets settles this market as follows: The New York Times, in its lawsuit against OpenAI, seeks the deletion of all language models trained with data that includes any Times articles.