The massive lawsuits filed against OpenAI and its ChatGPT service saw a significant turn today, and this was after the California judge presiding over the case, dismissed the claims of the plaintiff authors. This led to OpenAI getting partial wins over the separate cases from the authors who said that ChatGPT illegally copied their works and infringed their content to train the AI.
Massive copyright laws have been faced by ChatGPT over the years it has been available, with not only books but also art content for the other GPT-trained service, DALL-E.
OpenAI Partially Wins in ChatGPT's Copyright Lawsuit
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US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín filed an order to dismiss the massive claims of renowned authors who filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI and its ChatGPT.
Authors Sarah Silverman, Paul Tremblay, and Michael Chabon's three separate cases saw the judge's dismissal of their claims, siding with OpenAI's motion filed last August.
ArsTechnica reported that the judge found no evidence or a lack thereof from the claims of the authors, also centering on the several copyright infringement complaints of the writers.
The judge argued that there was insufficient evidence submitted by the authors from their respective cases, stating that the work should be similar or substantially similar to make those claims. Moreover, the authors also failed to convince the judge regarding OpenAI's violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) which points to the company that it removed the copyright management information (CMI).
Judge Martínez-Olguín stated that there are "no facts" behind the authors' claims about OpenAI removing the CMI, but for those whose names were cited by ChatGPT, it is independent of the recent dismissal.
OpenAI's Copyright Lawsuits and Issues
One of the most significant lawsuits against OpenAI was the complaints from renowned authors who claimed that the renowned ChatGPT illegally used pirated copies of their books found online to train the chatbot. This includes the likes of Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay who were amongst the earliest to file the complaint against OpenAI, inviting other authors to also pursue the company.
Shortly after, other authors and writers came together and sued OpenAI, including the likes of Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, Rachel Louise Snyder, and Ayelet Waldman.
In a different take, comedian Sarah Silverman, joined by authors Richard Kardrey and Christopher Golden, filed a class-action lawsuit that involves OpenAI's GPT and Meta's LLaMA stealing data for its training.
Now, several of these cases met a massive problem, and this centered on their inability to provide compelling evidence that nails OpenAI and its ChatGPT on the claims against it. The three separate lawsuits saw a massive snag in their fight against AI and its alleged illegal training, with the insufficient evidence leading to the fight going sideways, to favor OpenAI.
