By Aditya Kalra, Arpan Chaturvedi and Munsif Vengattil
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian book publishers and their international counterparts have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in Latest Delhi, a representative said on Friday, the newest in a series of world cases in search of to stop the ChatGPT chatbot accessing proprietary content.
Courts the world over are hearing claims by authors, news outlets and musicians who accuse technology firms of using their copyright work to coach AI services and who’re in search of to have content used to coach the chatbot deleted.
The Latest Delhi-based Federation of Indian Publishers told Reuters it had filed a case on the Delhi High Court, which is already hearing an analogous lawsuit against OpenAI.
The case was filed on behalf of all of the federation’s members, who include publishers like Bloomsbury, Penguin Random House, Cambridge University Press and Pan Macmillan, in addition to India’s Rupa Publications and S.Chand and Co, it said.
“Our ask from the court is that they need to stop (OpenAI from) accessing our copyright content,” Pranav Gupta, the federation’s general secretary said in an interview concerning the lawsuit, which concerns the ChatGPT tool’s book summaries.
“In case they don’t desire to do licensing with us, they need to delete datasets utilized in AI training and explain how we might be compensated. This impacts creativity,” he added.
OpenAI didn’t reply to a request for comment on the allegations and the lawsuit, which was filed in December but is being reported here for the primary time. It has repeatedly denied such allegations, saying its AI systems make fair use of publicly available data.
OpenAI kicked off an investment, consumer and company frenzy in generative AI after the Nov. 2022 launch of ChatGPT. It desires to be ahead within the AI race after raising $6.6 billion last yr.
The Indian book publishers’ group is in search of to affix Indian news agency ANI’s lawsuit against the Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which is probably the most high-profile legal proceeding within the nation on this subject.
“These cases represent a pivotal moment and may potentially shape the longer term legal framework on AI in India. The judgment passed here will test the balance between protecting IP and promoting tech advancement,” said Siddharth Chandrashekhar, a Mumbai based lawyer.
Responding to the ANI case, OpenAI said in comments reported by Reuters this week that any order to delete training data would end in a violation of its U.S. legal obligations, and Indian judges don’t have any right to listen to a copyright case against the corporate as its servers are positioned abroad.