The judge ruled that the writers who filed the lawsuit, including comedian Sarah Silverman and novelist Paul Tremblay, did not provide enough evidence to prove that OpenAI used their works to train ChatGPT
A federal judge in California has rejected most claims of copyright infringement in a lawsuit brought by a group of authors against OpenAI, the company that created the artificial intelligence ChatGPT. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín ruled that the writers who filed the lawsuit, including comedian Sarah Silverman and novelist Paul Tremblay, had not provided sufficient evidence to show that OpenAI had used their works to train the language model underlying the popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.
The ruling follows similar decisions by other federal judges, who determined that ChatGPT's output is not similar enough to the authors' works to directly infringe their copyrights. However, Judge Martínez-Olguín granted the authors permission to continue pursuing any claims that OpenAI violated copyright law by using the authors' books without their permission. They now have the option to file an appeal by March 13.
Similar lawsuits have been filed against Google and Meta by other groups of writers, artists and music publishers, who allege that the tech companies have misused copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence systems. The U.S. House and Senate are considering legislation that could set the rules for generative artificial intelligence and intellectual property. But as the law tries to keep pace with technology, the intersection of artificial intelligence and intellectual property will only become more contentious.
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