Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI Dismissed by Federal Judge

U.S. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon dismissed A copyright lawsuit against OpenAI. McMahon’s decision, published Thursday, is a win not just for OpenAI, but for everyone who benefits from ChatGPT and similar programs.

Raw Story Media and AlterNet Media, be fit In February, he complained that OpenAI used his articles to train ChatGPT and that the bot “reproduces copyrighted journalistic works verbatim or nearly verbatim.” Plaintiffs alleged OpenAI infringed Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by removing copyright management information (authorship and title) from articles used to train ChatGPT.

McMahon I disagree with the plaintiffs. He rejected claims for compensation because he did not specify “any circumstances.” real “Adverse effects resulting from this alleged DMCA violation”; He wrote that there could be no validity without concrete damage. He also noted that copyrighted content may be valid, but information alone is not. He wrote that there was no significant risk that ChatGPT would violate the DMCA because “given the amount of information in the repository, the possibility that ChatGPT would publish plagiarized content from one of Plaintiffs’ articles appears remote.”

McMahon’s decision could set a precedent New York Times’ continues be fit Against OpenAI and Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest investorBecause he uses his millions of articles to train ChatGPT. Times The lawsuit, filed last year, demands the “destruction” of every major language model and training set “involving Times Works.” The next hearing of this case will be held on December 3, 2024.

Jen Sidorova, a policy analyst at the Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes this website, points out that AI is “scaling with data what researchers have been doing for decades.” The ethical landscape has not changed; Business model that needs to be updated. “