OpenAI president's "ah nice" reply to NYT paywall hack sparks CFAA violation accusations
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-18
OpenAI President Greg Brockman reportedly responded "ah nice" when told his company had hacked the NYT paywall to scrape the site. Commentators jasonkint and matthewstoller seized on the exchange, with the latter calling it a straightforward criminal violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and joking that OpenAI executives belong in jail. The incident adds fuel to the ongoing NYT copyright lawsuit and scrutiny of OpenAI's data-scraping practices.
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