OpenAI Dropped From First Ever AI Programming Copyright Lawsuit 8
OpenAI escaped a copyright lawsuit from a group of open-source programmers after they voluntarily dismissed their case against the company in federal court. From a report: The programmers, who allege the generative AI programming tool Copilot was trained on their code without proper attribution, filed their notice of voluntary dismissal Thursday, but will still have their case against GitHub and parent company Microsoft, which collaborated with OpenAI in developing the tool. The proposed class action filed in 2022 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California was the first major copyright case against OpenAI, which has since been hit with numerous lawsuits from authors and news organizations including the New York Times.
Paid off? (Score:1)
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More likely they realized Microsoft has infinitely deep pockets to pay their top lawyers and will ruin them by making legal proceedings drag on as long as possible. So they cut their losses.
That's how justice works in the US: the one who can outspend the other on legal fees wins, not the one who's right.
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These AI cases have been a nonstop stream of bad news for the plaintiffs, yet every single time in the comments section there's always someone trying to pull a "This Is Good News For John McCain" [urbandictionary.com] with it.
Musk dropped the first lawsuit (Score:2, Informative)
Yeah, about that. Ol Musty scurried away [cnn.com] as fast as he could with his tail between his legs when OpenAI released emails showing Must acknowledged the company needed to acquire large sums of money to fund resources needed to power its goals (whatever they might be).
This is the same whiner who said Apple products will be banned from his pr
Re: Musk dropped the first lawsuit (Score:2)
Yeah, about that. Ol Musty scurried away as fast as he could with his tail between his legs when OpenAI released emails showing Must acknowledged the company needed to acquire large sums of money to fund resources needed to power its goals (whatever they might be).
He specifically wanted control of the company, because they're leading right now and he wants to put his name next to the first AGI whenever that happens. All the bullshit from him or anyone about AI safety is just that, bullshit and pulling the ladder up to cut off competition.
The main beneficiaries (Score:2)
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Which is exactly what Nvidia is going to say next month at their quarterly meeting. Jensen is going to explain that for every $1 a company spends on AI they get roughly $7 in return on efficiency (or words to that effect).