OpenAI Receives a Partial Win in Authors’ U.S. Copyright Lawsuit

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 granted most of Microsoft-backed MSFT.O OpenAI’s motion to dismiss many of the writers’ 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.
Martinez-Olguin joined other federal judges who have so farrejected allegations that the output of generative AI systems violates the rights of copyright holders whose works were supposedly used to train them.
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