OpenAI Seeks to Toss Claims it Says Broadened Merged AI Suits

OpenAI Inc. is seeking to ax certain copyright claims over ChatGPT outputs and downloaded training data from a consolidated complaint in the merged copyright lawsuit against the AI behemoth.

The complaint from class action plaintiffs—which include the organization Authors Guild and author Paul Tremblay, among others—is broadening their infringement theory by arguing AI outputs provide a “separate, independent basis” for the direct copyright infringement claim, OpenAI wrote in a motion to dismiss filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The motion sought dismissal of the direct infringement claim based on ChatGPT’s outputs. That ...