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German music rights agency GEMA and India's ANI news agency filed lawsuits in their respective local courts on the 13th and 18th of this month, accusing OpenAI of using their content to train artificial intelligence models without permission. GEMA says it is the world's first class action organization to file a lawsuit against a provider of generative AI systems. The organization represents the copyrights of more than two million music rights holders worldwide, and is one of the largest associations of writers of musical works in the world. GEMA alleges that OpenAI's chat...

Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, was recently sued by a group of authors for using a large number of pirated books without authorization when training its popular chatbot Claude. The case is the first time that authors have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, although similar lawsuits have been filed against competitor OpenAI over the past year. Anthropic is a small company founded by former OpenAI leaders who bill themselves as a more responsible and safety-focused developer of generative AI models.

The Center for Investigative Journalism (CIR) in the United States has accused OpenAI and Microsoft of using copyrighted material to train their AI models. A complaint filed in federal court in New York claims that OpenAI has exploited CIR’s content without permission or payment. CIR’s CEO Monika Bauerlein highlighted the existential threat posed by AI tools that replace direct engagement with original content from Mother Jones and Reveal. According to Bauerle…

Recently, a heated debate about copyright has been set off in the field of artificial intelligence music. After being sued by the three major record companies Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music, AI music startup Udio issued a statement today, insisting that its model does not copy copyrighted works or artists' voices. In a statement released on the social media platform X, Udio emphasized that the goal of its model training is to cultivate an understanding of musical concepts. The company believes that these musical concepts are fundamental components of musical expression and do not belong to any individual or entity. Udio said that its system is explicitly designed to create music that reflects new musical concepts...

Tech giant Microsoft and its generative AI partner OpenAI are facing more lawsuits over the use of their chatbots ChatGPT and Copilot. According to The Verge, three US news websites - Raw Story, The Intercept and AlterNet - have filed lawsuits against the two companies, accusing their chatbots of plagiarizing news website articles for training. These news websites all said that OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT (Microsoft's Copilot)...