ChatGPT maker OpenAI claimed that the New York Times “paid someone to hack” their products to produce evidence for the newspaper’s copyright lawsuit. The claim came from lawyers for the AI company that responded to the lawsuit in a court filing this week, published in full by both Reuters and the New York Times. OpenAI’s lawyers argue in the filing that the evidence for the newspaper’s lawsuit took “tens of thousands of attempts to generate” and that it was done by “targeting and exploiting a bug” that the company is addressing. “Even then, they had to feed the tool portions of the very articl…