U.S. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon has dismissed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI. McMahon's decision, issued Thursday, is a win not just for OpenAI but for everyone who benefits from ChatGPT and similar programs.
Raw Story Media and AlterNet Media filed the suit in February, complaining that OpenAI used their articles to train ChatGPT and that the bot "regurgitate[s] verbatim or nearly verbatim copyright-protected works of journalism." The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI had violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by removing copyright management information—authorship and title—from articles used to train ChatGPT.
