Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI will move forward with some of the legal team’s claims being dismissed. Comedian Sued OpenAI and Meta In July 2023, they claimed to have taught artificial intelligence models in his books and other works without his consent. Bloomberg informed On Tuesday, the unfair competition part of the lawsuit will continue. Judge Martínez-Olguin gave the plaintiffs until March 13 to amend the lawsuit.
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín on Monday dismissed parts of the complaint from Silverman’s legal team, including allegations of negligence, unjust enrichment, DMCA violations and tortious infringement. The main allegation of the case remains intact. He claims that OpenAI is directly infringing copyrighted material by teaching LLMs on millions of books without permission.
OpenAI’s Motion to Dismiss, given in August, did not settle the case’s underlying copyright claims. Although the suit is proceeding, the judge suggested that the federal Copyright Act may preempt the remaining claims of the suit. “Since OpenAI does not increase the exemption, the Court does not consider it,” Martínez-Olguín wrote.
The US court system has not yet determined whether training AI large language models on copyrighted work refers to the fair use doctrine. last month, OpenAI admitted in a court filing “It would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted material.”
The outcome of Silverman’s OpenAI hearing is similar to the one in San Francisco in November, where Silverman’s claims against Meta were also made. cut off to basic copyright infringement claims. At that hearing, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria called some plaintiffs’ dismissed claims “nonsense.”
Other groups is suing OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement includes The New York Timesa a collection of non-fiction authors (a group that grew after the first claim) and the Authors Guild. He raised his last claim along with the authors George RR Martin (Game of Thrones) and John Grisham.
