OpenAI has already agreed to produce documents from 24 individuals but is resisting further requests due to the significant resources required to review them. The company estimates that the review of files from the 24 agreed individuals alone would involve over 460,000 documents. The case is part of a series of copyright infringement lawsuits faced by OpenAI, including one from The New York Times.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI is attempting to reduce the number of files it must produce in a copyright lawsuit, arguing that the requests are too large and numerous.
- The files under dispute include those belonging to former chief scientist and cofounder Ilya Sutskever and seven other current and former employees.
- The lawsuit, brought by the Authors Guild, alleges that OpenAI trained its AI models on books without the authors' permission.
- OpenAI is also facing other copyright infringement cases, including one brought by The New York Times, with the Authors Guild suggesting that the datasets may have included over 100,000 published books.