US District Court Rejects Lawsuit Against OpenAI On Articles Misuse From Raw Story And AlterNet
It is among the several lawsuits filed against the AI giant and other tech companies by authors, visual artists and music
By: : Daniel
Update: 2024-11-07 23:45 GMT
US District Court Rejects Lawsuit Against OpenAI On Articles Misuse From Raw Story And AlterNet
It is among the several lawsuits filed against the AI giant and other tech companies by authors, visual artists and music publishers
A US District Court has dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence (AI) giant OpenAI claiming it misused articles from news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet to train its large language models.
Judge Colleen McMahon said the two outlets could not prove any harm to support the lawsuit. However, she allowed them to file a new complaint, though skeptical that they could allege a cognizable injury.
AlterNet was acquired by Raw Story in 2018.
The firm’s attorney Matt Topic of Loevy + Loevy said the outlets were "certain of addressing the concerns the court identified through an amended complaint."
The two outlets filed the lawsuit early this year, stating that thousands of their articles were used without permission to train OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT and it reproduced their copyrighted material.
It is among the several lawsuits filed against OpenAI and other tech companies by authors, visual artists, music publishers and copyright owners over the data used to train their generative AI systems.
A lawsuit by The New York Times against OpenAI in December last was the first from a media outlet.
Unlike other lawsuits, Raw Story and AlterNet's complaint accused OpenAI of unlawfully removing their articles' copyright management information (CMI) without arguing that it infringed their copyrights.
Agreeing with OpenAI that the claims should be dismissed, the judge stated, "Let us be clear about what is at stake. The alleged injury for which the plaintiffs seek redress is not the exclusion of the CMI but using the articles to develop ChatGPT without compensation."
Judge McMahon said that the harm cited by the outlets was "not the type that has been elevated" to a level that justified the lawsuit.
She added, "Whether there is another statute or legal theory that does elevate the harm, remains to be seen. But today, that question is not before the court.”