In a landmark case that could go a long way towards defining what type of copyrighted material AI tools can use to train themselves, Federal Judge Araceli Martinez-Olgiun just handed a big win to AI developers, striking down most of the complaints lobbied against OpenAI by Sarah Silverman and other content creators.
In her ruling, the judge claimed the authors “fail to explain what the outputs entail or allege that any particular output is substantially similar – or similar at all – to their books.”
Excerpt from www.mycouriertribune.com
… Martinez-Olguin dismissed one of the major claims that the authors had made: that all the answers ChatGPT generates are infringing work made of information obtained through copyright violation. Basically, everything ChatGPT creates violates the rights of the copyright holders of the works the company used to train its AI system.
Last year, Sarah Silverman, backed by authors like Michael Chabon and Ta-Nehisi Coates, sued Artificial Intelligence firm OpenAI. Last month, the presiding judge dismissed the claims of negligence, unjust enrichment, Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations, and vicarious copyright infringement. The authors were given until March 13 to amend their complaint and return to court. At the time of this writing, no public report has revealed whether or not they did so.
This is the second case of copyright infringement by writers against artificial intelligence that courts have partially dismissed. Last November, Judge Vince Chhabria also dismissed portions of Sarah Silverman’s allegations against Meta.
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