{"id":26823,"date":"2024-02-14T03:54:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/openai-gets-partial-win-in-authors-copyright-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T03:54:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:24:07","slug":"openai-gets-partial-win-in-authors-copyright-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/openai-gets-partial-win-in-authors-copyright-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI gets partial win in authors\u2019 copyright lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2023-07\/230710-sarah-silverman-mn-0825-48e9a7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">A federal judge in California has dismissed parts of a copyright lawsuit brought by comedian Sarah Silverman, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and other authors against OpenAI over its alleged use of their books to train the large language model underlying its popular chatbot ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin on Monday\u00a0granted most of Microsoft-backed\u00a0OpenAI\u2019s motion to dismiss many of the writers\u2019 claims for now, rejecting their arguments that the content generated by ChatGPT infringes their copyrights and that the company unjustly enriched itself with their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Martinez-Olguin joined other federal judges who have\u00a0so far\u00a0rejected allegations\u00a0that the output of generative AI systems violates the rights of copyright holders whose works were supposedly used to train them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Courts have not yet addressed the\u00a0core question\u00a0of whether tech companies\u2019 unauthorized use of material scraped from the internet to train AI infringes copyrights on a massive scale. OpenAI, Microsoft and other companies have said that their AI training is protected by the copyright doctrine of fair use and that the lawsuits threaten the burgeoning AI industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Representatives for the authors and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Several groups of copyright owners including writers, visual artists and music publishers have sued major tech companies over the alleged misuse of their work to train generative AI systems. The group of authors that includes Silverman, Coates and Chabon sued OpenAI and Meta Platforms\u00a0over their systems\u00a0last\u00a0year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">OpenAI\u00a0argued in August\u00a0that ChatGPT\u2019s output is not similar enough to the authors\u2019 books to violate their copyrights. Martinez-Olguin agreed on Monday that the authors \u201cfail to explain what the outputs entail or allege that any particular output is substantially similar \u2014 or similar at all \u2014 to their books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Martinez-Olguin gave the authors permission to file an amended complaint by March 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">The authors\u00a0asked the court\u00a0last week to halt similar high-profile cases brought in New York by The New York Times and other writers including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen and George R.R. Martin, calling them \u201ccopycat\u201d lawsuits. They filed related motions in the New York cases on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A federal judge in California has dismissed parts of a copyright lawsuit brought by comedian Sarah Silverman, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and other authors against OpenAI over its alleged use of their books to train the large language model underlying its popular chatbot ChatGPT. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin on Monday\u00a0granted most of Microsoft-backed\u00a0OpenAI\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}