OPENAI DENIES INFRINGEMENT ALLEGATIONS IN AUTHOR COPYRIGHT CASES.
OpenAI has responded in California federal court to allegations that it misused the work of authors including Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and comedian Sarah Silverman to train its artificial-intelligence language model.
The Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O), opens new tab AI company said in an answer to the complaints, opens new tab on Tuesday that it makes fair use of copyrighted content to teach models like the one underlying its popular chatbot ChatGPT to create original material.
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Copyright owners including writers, news outlets and music publishers have filed several high-stakes lawsuits against tech companies over the alleged exploitation of their work without permission in order to train text-based generative AI systems. The group of authors that includes Silverman, Coates and Chabon filed separate lawsuits against Meta Platforms META.O and Microsoft-backed MSFT.O OpenAI over their systems last year.
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Tech companies have said that AI training is protected by the copyright doctrine of fair use and that the lawsuits threaten the burgeoning AI industry.
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