Back in June, The New York Times published a fascinating investigation by its award-winning tech reporter Kashmir Hill about how automakers and various apps are secretly selling data about your driving habits to car insurance companies. But when we asked OpenAI’s flagship chatbot ChatGPT about the topic, it didn’t mention the NYT’s reporting. Instead, it based its answer on a site called DNyuz.com, which had plagiarized the NYT’s entire story word-for-word. DNyuz is a notorious pirater of news. Back in 2020, a BuzzFeed News investigation found that the site made significant amounts of money by copy-pasting work by publications — including the NYT, the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, Bloomberg, and the Associated Press — and running ads on the stolen content. In other words, DNyuz, which is run out of Armenia, is a well-known offender in the murky world of automated plagiarism. Google, for instance, blocked it from making money using its adtech products after BuzzFeed’s investigation. But OpenAI never seems to have gotten the memo. In Futurism’s testing, ChatGPT regularly cited DNyuz’ plagiarism factory as an authoritative and original source. And even after we alerted OpenAI to the issue, ChatGPT continued basing its answers on DNuyz’s stolen content. It’s particularly egregious for ChatGPT to cite content stolen from the NYT, because the newspaper is already suing OpenAI for copyright infringement. Its suit, filed in December of last year, argues that OpenAI unlawfully used its journalists’ work without permission or compensation to train ChatGPT and that OpenAI and Microsoft — which has invested billions into OpenAI and integrated…Amid New York Times Lawsuit, ChatGPT Is Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill