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Authors and Publishers File Motion for Summary Judgment Against OpenAI and Microsoft Over Copyright Infringement

Authors and publishers have filed a motion for summary judgment against OpenAI and Microsoft, seeking a ruling that the use of copyrighted books and news articles for training artificial intelligence models qualifies as fair use. The motion, filed in the Southern District of New York, asks Judge Sidney Stein to rule that OpenAI copied work without permission and that the copying was avoidable. OpenAI is accused of using unauthorized sources, specifically the pirate library Library Genesis, to train its early models. The authors argue that OpenAI was aware of the site's illegal nature and attempted to conceal it by relabeling the files. The motion also highlights that OpenAI's lead writing quality researcher, Tarun Gogineni, acknowledged that AI models could eventually replace human authors. Microsoft argues that the use of copyrighted content for training is fair use because the systems are used for transformative purposes. Microsoft provided 8.2 million chat logs to show that regurgitation of full sentences or substantive chunks of text is rare. The administration announced a statement of interest in the New York Times case, supporting OpenAI.

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