OpenAI Seeks to Limit ‘Models’ It Must Produce in Copyright Case

OpenAI Inc., in a copyright suit brought by several authors, told a federal court in California that the plaintiffs’ discovery request for all the models it used to train ChatGPT was unduly burdensome.

The authors sued OpenAI for copyright infringement and under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act for using their works for training purposes. The artificial intelligence company informed the US District Court for the Southern District of New York at a status conference in early December of its decision to petition for centralizing eight copyright infringement and DMCA lawsuits against it in New York and California ...