Condé Nast Copyright Lawsuit Over Cohere’s AI Training Advances

Canadian AI developer Cohere Inc. failed to escape a copyright infringement lawsuit from news and magazine publishers including Condé Nast over the training of its large language models and the outputs they produce.

Judge Colleen McMahon Thursday denied Cohere’s motion to dismiss the publishers’ direct copyright infringement claim to the extent it implicated AI outputs, in an opinion in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also allowed claims for secondary copyright infringement and trademark claims to advance.

McMahon said the examples the publishers included of AI outputs from Cohere’s “Command” family of LLMs showed ...