Think about it this way--we have to make two assumptions about this.
1. chatGPT o4 will have about 100 million monthly users, spending over 30 minutes per session.
2. NYT claims that four persons have been negatively affected by their chatGPT use.
If NYT is to be believed in as far as this chatGPT behavior is concerned, then 100 million monthly users are exposing themselves to this alleged scofflaw behavior by chatGPT--in other words, there are 100 million people a month who have just as good a chance at having chatGPT persuade them off the fantastical things that these four persons experienced, and the only thing they need do is to type in the correct and common input.
By random chance alone, with that big number 100 million, one would think that hundreds of thousands of people should be affected by this odd chatGPT behavior, yet we've only seen four so far. And even if the NYT is underreporting, they can't be underreporting by much, and certainly nowhere near the universe of hundreds of thousands.
We conclude what we've already suspected: that there is a reason why everyone here laughed when that one poster said that the NYT is a respectable journalist. There is a reason for this article: to slander a bitterly disliked company (openAI). Is it defamation for NYT to print this? Of course not, because insolong as the NYT avoids slandering 100% of the company, the NYT avoids a defamation lawsuit.
And lastly, why is it that the NYT has a paywall? They run the most sensationalistic, "I wanna click on that" clickbait type articles (instead of real journalism), only to find that it's protected by a paywall. If they want people to click like we're lab rats clicking for our next cocaine dose, one would think that the proper thing to do would be to get rid of the paywall and make it ad-based. But no. They run an article that reads "Secret Files Revealed: Melina Trump Secretly Sends Us Exclusive Pictures of Donald Trump's College Freshmen IQ Test" and of course you're gonna click on it. It's not real journalism, but you're gonna wanna click on it...