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Court ruling suggests AI systems may be in the clear as long as they don't make exact copies
A California district court has partially dismissed a copyright lawsuit against Microsoft's GitHub Copilot programming tool and its former underlying language model, OpenAI's Codex. The ruling could set a precedent for AI tools trained on copyrighted data.
A California district court has partially dismissed a copyright lawsuit against Microsoft's GitHub Copilot programming tool and its former underlying language model, OpenAI's Codex. Plaintiffs also referred to a March 2023 study that found that the likelihood of AI systems reproducing their training data verbatim increases with the size of the models. The court found that plaintiffs failed to prove Copilot makes identical copies of protected works, which is necessary for Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims.
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