Generative AI Lawsuits Timeline: Legal Cases vs. OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, Nvidia, Perplexity, Intel and More
November 22, 2024 by Joe Panettieri
Welcome: Here is additional coverage of AI-related lawsuits.
Generative AI Lawsuits & Agreements: April 2024 Updates
April 30 - More Media Lawsuits: Eight newspapers have filed suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their AI software undermines the newspaper industry, The Mercury News reported. The plaintiffs include MediaNews Group-owned Mercury News, Denver Post, Orange County Register and St. Paul Pioneer-Press; Tribune Publishing’s Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel; and the New York Daily News. Microsoft declined to comment, and OpenAI said it takes "great care" In designing its products while also pursuing and exploring potential partnerships with media organizations, The Mercury News added.
April 29 - Complaint vs. OpenAI: Advocacy group NOYB of Austria has filed a complaint against OpenAI, alleging that the company's ChatGPT software may breach European Union privacy rules, Reuters reported.
April 22 - Former Employee vs. Amazon: A former Amazon employee alleges that the company breached its own copyright rules involving AI and Alexa, The Register reported. In a lawsuit, the former employee alleges alleging discrimination, retaliation, harassment and wrongful termination, among other claims." An Amazon spokesperson says the company does not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or retaliation in our workplace, the report said.
April 6 - YouTube and IT Training: OpenAI and Google trained their AI models on text transcribed from YouTube videos, potentially violating creators’ copyrights, according to The New York Times. The report surfaced a few days after YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said in an interview with Bloomberg Originals that OpenAI’s alleged use of YouTube videos to train its new text-to-video generator, Sora, would go against the platform’s policies. A Yahoo News summary is here.
April 3 - Settlement - George Carlin Estate vs. AI: George Carlin‘s estate has settled a lawsuit over an AI-generated imitation of the late comedian, with the creators agreeing to remove it from their YouTube channel and podcast feed, Variety reported.
Generative AI Lawsuits: March 2024 Updates
March 13 - New York Times vs. OpenAI Lawsuit:The New York Times denied an OpenAI claim that the newspaper improperly used OpenAI products to create "highly anomalous results" as part of its lawsuit against the AI startup, SeekingAlpha reported.
March 11 - Lawsuit vs. Nvidia: Three authors -- Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan -- have sued Nvidia because the chip giant alleged used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform, Reuters reported.
Lawsuits and Partnerships: February 2024 Updates
Tesla CEO Elon Musk sued OpenAI in Feb 2024
February 29 - Elon Musk Sues OpenAI:Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its Chief Executive Sam Altman, alleging they broke the artificial-intelligence company’s founding agreement by prioritizing profit over the benefit of humanity, The Wall Street Journal reported.
February 28 - More AI Lawsuits: News organizations The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet sued OpenAI in New York federal court on February 28, 2024, accusing the Microsoft-backed company of misusing their articles to train the artificial-intelligence system behind its popular chatbot ChatGPT, Reuters reported.
February 22 - AI Licensing: Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's AI models, Reuters reported.
February 12 - Revenues:OpenAI’s revenues have surpassed $2 billion on an annualized basis, as the runaway success of its flagship artificial intelligence product ChatGPT puts it among the fastest-growing technology companies in history, The Financial Times reported.
February 9 - OpenAI Revenues:OpenAI’s revenues have surpassed $2 billion on an annualized basis, as the runaway success of its flagship artificial intelligence product ChatGPT puts it among the fastest-growing technology companies in history, The Financial Times reported.
One comment on “Generative AI Lawsuits Timeline: Legal Cases vs. OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, Nvidia, Perplexity, Intel and More”
It is important to understand that while AI technology brings many benefits, there are also legal issues that need to be resolved, especially in relation to copyright. Hopefully, all parties can find a fair and balanced solution so that innovation can continue to thrive without compromising the rights of content creators. Thank you for the very informative information!
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It is important to understand that while AI technology brings many benefits, there are also legal issues that need to be resolved, especially in relation to copyright. Hopefully, all parties can find a fair and balanced solution so that innovation can continue to thrive without compromising the rights of content creators. Thank you for the very informative information!