OpenAI is opposite numerous claims for using the content of several publications and books to teach extensive language models without express permission or appropriate compensation. The judge dismissed one of them. New York federal judge Colleen McMahon rejected the claim given by Raw Story and AlterNetwhich accused the company use materials for AI training without consent. as VentureBeat notes, although their complaint does not allege that OpenAI infringes copyright, as other publications claim. Instead, he focused on the DMCA provision that protects “copyright management information.”
The publications alleged that OpenAI removed author names, titles and other metadata identifying copyright from articles it used to teach its LLMs. McMahon explained that the plaintiffs failed to show that they suffered a “knowable injury” from these actions, and that the injury they claim “is not the type of injury that rises to the occasion” to warrant a claim. The judge also said that “the possibility that ChatGPT has plagiarized content from one [their] the articles seem far-fetched.” He added that the plaintiffs were actually seeking recovery for using the articles “to advance ChatGPT without compensation” and not for the removal of copyright management information.
Raw Story and AlterNet based on what his lawyer said, he is not going to back down Reuters. Their attorney, Matt Topic, said, “They’re confident [they] may address concerns identified by the court through an amended complaint.”
