A German court has ruled that OpenAI have broken German law by using copyrighted songs to train its language model Chat GPT.
The action was brought by the German music rights society, GEMA which alleged that ChatGPT harvested lyrics from artists to ‘learn’ from them. GEMA used nine major hits as examples in the case, which included Männer (Men), Herbert Grönemeyer’s synth pop hit from 1984 and Helene Fischer’s Atemlos Durch die Nacht (Breathless Through the Night) which you probably didn’t know was the official German anthem for the 2014 World Cup (which they won, of course).
