Sarah Silverman’s legal battle against OpenAI is moving forward after some of her legal team’s claims were dismissed. The comedian filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta in July 2023, alleging that they used her books and other work to train their AI models without her permission. According to Bloomberg, the unfair competition aspect of the lawsuit will continue, with Judge Martínez-Olguín giving the plaintiffs until March 13 to revise the suit.
US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín rejected parts of the complaint from Silverman’s legal team on Monday, including negligence, unjust enrichment, DMCA violations, and accusations of vicarious infringement. However, the main claim of the case remains valid, asserting that OpenAI infringed on copyrighted material by training LLMs on millions of books without authorization.
OpenAI’s attempt to dismiss the lawsuit, filed in August, did not address the core copyright claims of the case. Despite the dismissal of some claims, the judge indicated that the federal Copyright Act may preempt the lawsuit’s…
2024-02-13 16:14:56
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