OpenAI, Raw Story and AlterNet win first round in copyright lawsuit

OpenAI faces multiple lawsuits for using content from various publications and books to train large language models without explicit permission or appropriate compensation. A judge just dismissed one of them. New York federal judge Colleen McMahon dismissed the case filed by Raw Story And AlterNetWhich blamed the company Using materials for artificial intelligence training without permission. Like VentureBeat But he notes that their complaint does not allege that OpenAI violated their copyright, as other publications’ lawsuits do. Instead, he focused on the DMCA provision that protects “copyright management information.”

The publications argued that OpenAI removed author names, titles, and other metadata identifying copyrights from articles it used to train graduate students. McMahon explained that the plaintiffs failed to show that they suffered a “noticeable injury” from these actions, and that the harm they cited was “not an elevated type of harm” to warrant a lawsuit. The judge also said that “the possibility of ChatGPT publishing plagiarized content from one of its articles seems remote.” He added that the plaintiffs were not really seeking compensation for the removal of copyright management information, but for the use of their articles “to improve ChatGPT without compensation.”

Raw Story And AlterNet I have no intention of backing down based on what your lawyers have said. Reuters. Their lawyer, Matt Topic, said they were “confident they can address the concerns the court identified through an amended complaint.”