Artificial intelligence continues to raise eyebrows from many throughout the country, and now, one of the pioneer companies behind the tech, OpenAI, is being sued by a group of authors who are claiming copyright infringement.
The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco federal court last week, claiming that Open AI is collecting massive amounts of the authors’ work and using it to train its AI system.
Entertainment attorney Jonathan Handel joined KNX Midday News to discuss the proposed class action lawsuit and what it could mean for the advancement of AI.
“The primary claim of the lawsuit is that there is copyright infringement by virtue of creating a derivative work from the novels that the plaintiffs and other authors… created. That is a new issue for the law,” Handel shared.
Several other lawsuits have also been filed against artificial intelligence companies for numerous reasons.
“There are existing lawsuits out, from several months ago, against tools that create artwork based on artwork that they find on the internet,” Handel said.
When it comes to these lawsuits, Handel says that there is no precedent set in court when it comes to the topic of AI and art or creative works.
“This is uncharted waters,” the attorney said.
Handel says that for a derivative work to be created legally, the author who takes something from an already finished piece of work has to have licensing from the original creator, which AI does not.
“Here, they don’t take the whole work and create a whole translation. They’re sampling the work. They’re sampling thousands or hundreds of thousands of works and then using that to create software that can generate text,” Handel said. “So it’s a hard problem. The software is learning, to some extent, in the same way, that all of us learn from reading other works. Every author has read other author’s works, of course.”
To listen to the full interview and what could happen with the lawsuit, listen to Handel’s full interview here:
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