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Sarah Silverman OpenAI Lawsuit: Most Claims Dismissed by Judge

The order builds upon findings from other courts, which have mostly dismissed claims from creators suing AI companies. A claim for direct copyright infringement remains in the suit from Silverman and other top authors suing OpenAI.

A federal judge has dismissed most of a lawsuit brought by Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nehisi Coates and other authors against OpenAI over the use of copyrighted books to train its generative artificial intelligence chatbot, marking another ruling from a court questioning core theories of liability advanced by creators in the multifront legal battle. Following in the footsteps of another judge overseeing an identical suit against Meta, Martinez-Olguin rejected one of the authors’ main claims that every answer generated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT is an infringing work made possible only by information extracted from copyrighted material. In a win for artists suing AI art generators, a federal judge found that the companies cannot avail themselves of a First Amendment defense arising under a California statute allowing for the early dismissal of claims intended to chill free speech.

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