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Intellectual Property

Dec. 18, 2024

OpenAI seeks dismissal of lawsuit over copyrights

OpenAI's legal team argued in their motion that the plaintiffs' three state law claims -- unjust enrichment and unfair competition under California and Massachusetts law -- should be dismissed, as they are preempted by the fourth claim for direct copyright infringement under the Copyright Act of 1976.

OpenAI Inc. has asked a federal judge to dismiss most claims in a proposed class action claiming the company unlawfully used copyrighted transcriptions from millions of YouTube videos to train the AI model powering its popular chatbot, ChatGPT.

The plaintiffs claim that these transcriptions were used to train ChatGPT's large language model so that the software could continue improving its output of "convincingly naturalistic texts" in response to users' prompts. ...

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