Recently, the American news website The Intercept filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement during the training of ChatGPT, which attracted widespread attention. The core of the lawsuit is that OpenAI removed the copyright information of news articles, such as titles and author names, from the training data, which The Intercept believes violated the protection of authorship and violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The editor of Downcodes will provide a detailed interpretation of the latest developments in this case.
Recently, a federal judge in New York ruled to allow the American news website The Intercept to continue part of its lawsuit against OpenAI. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) when training its artificial intelligence model. The core issue involved is that OpenAI removed copyright management information from news articles when creating the training data for ChatGPT. , such as title and author name. The Intercept believes that this approach violates the protection of authorship.
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The judge overseeing the case, Jed S. Rakoff, dismissed some of the claims, specifically all of the claims against Microsoft, but allowed the main DMCA complaint against OpenAI to proceed. In response, Matt Topic, a lawyer for The Intercept, said: "This decision demonstrates that the DMCA provides news organizations with important protections against the infringement of their content by artificial intelligence companies." He also said that this The first judgment is a "first-of-its-kind decision" and is believed to have wider implications.
Currently, courts face significant challenges in how to apply existing copyright laws to artificial intelligence systems trained on protected material. Previously, another New York federal judge dismissed a similar lawsuit, also against OpenAI, with the plaintiffs being the news website Raw Story and AlterNet. In this case, the judge pointed out that the problem was not the removal of copyrighted information, but that OpenAI used the plaintiff’s article without compensation.
In this case, Judge Rakoff held that The Intercept may prove that specific harm was caused by the removal of copyrighted information, so the issue will enter further legal review. The Intercept filed the lawsuit in February this year, and the wave of lawsuits has intensified as more and more media companies take legal action against OpenAI and Microsoft due to various copyright issues in AI development. The preliminary ruling could mark the beginning of a longer legal battle over the use of copyrighted content for AI model training.
The verdict of this case will have a profound impact on both the artificial intelligence industry and the media industry, and will play an important role in the future training methods of artificial intelligence models and the improvement of copyright protection mechanisms. We will continue to pay attention to the subsequent progress of this case and bring you the latest reports in a timely manner.