OpenAI Wants Out of Sarah Silverman’s ChatGPT Copyright Claims

OpenAI Inc. asked a San Francisco federal court to toss out the majority of two copyright lawsuits brought by comedian Sarah Silverman and other authors who alleged the popular chatbot ChatGPT was trained on their works without permission.

The AI company’s motions to dismiss the two nearly identical suits argued their claim that every ChatGPT output is an act of vicarious copyright infringement is an “erroneous legal conclusion.”

The motions, both of which were filed Monday, notably didn’t ask the US District Court for the Northern District of California to toss out the plaintiffs’ claim of direct copyright infringement on ...