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It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem
It seems that OpenAI trained its video-generating model, Sora, on copyrighted video game content. And that could be legally problematic.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal in March, OpenAI’s then-CTO, Mira Murati, wouldn’t outright deny that Sora was trained on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook content. TechCrunch reached out to a number of game studios and publishers for comment, including Epic, Microsoft (which owns Minecraft), Ubisoft, Nintendo, Roblox, and Cyberpunk developer CD Projekt Red. “Training an AI platform on the voices, movements, characters, songs, dialogue, and artwork in a video game constitutes copyright infringement, just as it would if these elements were used in other contexts,” Avery Williams, an IP trial lawyer at McKool Smith, said.
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