OpenAI acknowledged in a submission to the UK's House of Lords that it would be "impossible" to create useful AI models like ChatGPT without using copyrighted material. AI models gain abilities from training on large quantities of public Internet content scraped without permission of rights holders. This follows a lawsuit by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged unlawful use of the newspaper's content. OpenAI asserts its use of public Internet materials for training is fair use under copyright law.