The case is part of a broader legal challenge against AI developers' use of copyrighted material in training sets. OpenAI is also facing a lawsuit from authors Paul Tremblay, Sarah Silverman, Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Another group of authors is suing Anthropic for allegedly using their copyrighted work to train its AI model. Despite these legal challenges, AI developers argue that broad access to internet information is crucial for innovation.
Key takeaways:
- A US judge has dismissed a case against OpenAI, which was accused by publishers Raw Story and AltNet of unlawfully removing copyright management information when building training sets for its chatbots.
- The plaintiffs argued that OpenAI's systems could potentially use their copyright-protected work in responses to users, but the judge ruled that the likelihood of this happening was remote.
- The judge stated that the real issue at stake was OpenAI's use of the plaintiffs' articles to develop ChatGPT without compensation, not the exclusion of copyright management information from training sets.
- OpenAI is facing similar lawsuits from authors Paul Tremblay, Sarah Silverman, Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, as well as another group of authors suing Anthropic over its Claude AI model.