In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation – Chat GPT Is Eating the World
At a recent hearing, Judge Sidney Stein made a ruling against OpenAI's attempt to overturn Magistrate Judge Ona Wang's order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs. This decision was prompted by the New York Times' concerns about potential copyright infringement and the generation of infringing news articles through ChatGPT.
Last week, in the midst of the In re ChatGPT Copyright Infringement Litigation, Judge Stein transferred all cases involving OpenAI and Microsoft to a magistrate judge. It is likely that Magistrate Judge Wang, who is already overseeing discovery in related cases in the Southern District of New York, will be handling these proceedings. Meanwhile, Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin has identified the Authors Guild's suit against nonparties Benjamin Man and Dario Amodei, both co-founders of Anthropic, as a related case to the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation.
It is interesting to observe the simultaneous litigation of AI-related lawsuits in both the Northern District of California and the Southern District of New York. OpenAI received a favorable discovery ruling from Magistrate Judge Illman in the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation, which is being cited as relevant authority in ongoing discussions with Magistrate Judge Wang.
Magistrate Judge Illman has urged the involved parties to come to a resolution regarding a dispute raised by non-party Robert Mann, who was subpoenaed for a deposition in the case.
In a separate case, Tremblay v. OpenAI, Magistrate Judge Illman granted a request from book authors to compel OpenAI to provide one of the datasets used, known as the "English Colang Dataset." This dataset presented challenges in terms of compliance with data-inspection rules agreed upon by the parties.
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