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January 24, 2024
Authors In OpenAI Copyright Fight Praise Joint Stipulation, Oppose Stay

NEW YORK — Parties’ carefully crafted stipulation creates “tremendous efficiencies” while removing the threat of dismissal motions and attempts to transfer a pair of class action copyright lawsuits against OpenAI Inc., and the court should reject an outside party’s request that it be stayed and a steering committee be formed, authors tell a federal judge in New York in a Jan. 23 letter.
January 23, 2024
Music Publishers Say Proposed Amicus Brief In AI Case Is Off Key

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Music publishers on Jan. 22 said a proposed Jan. 19 amicus curiae brief by groups comprising artificial intelligence investors is unnecessary at this stage of their copyright infringement lawsuit and is unlikely to add much to the dispute other than costs and time.
January 23, 2024
Authors, OpenAI Entities Stipulate To Case Guidelines In Copyright Lawsuit

NEW YORK — Parties to class action copyright lawsuits against OpenAI Inc. and related entities brought by fiction writers and nonfiction authors have agreed to consolidate the two cases and that the defendants will not seek transfer or dismissal of existing claims, among other framework for the cases to proceed, a federal judge in New York said in a Jan. 22 order adopting the stipulation. Meanwhile, two journalists who recently filed a similar suit asked the court on Jan. 23 to hold the stipulation in abeyance until the court decides whether to include their suit in the consolidated actions.
January 23, 2024
Judge Denies OpenAI’s Motion To Dismiss Georgia Defamation Case

ATLANTA — OpenAI LLC must face a Georgia case claiming that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence defamed a man after a state court judge denied a motion to dismiss claims based on the program erroneously reporting that the man stood accused of embezzlement.
January 22, 2024
Tennessee Governor: Bill Will Further Protect Performers From AI

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s governor announced forthcoming legislation designed to protect the state’s songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals from artificial intelligence (AI).
January 22, 2024
ASU-OpenAI Partnership Explores AI In Schooling

TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona State University and OpenAI LLC will collaborate on an effort to explore how artificial intelligence can enhance teaching and learning while also reinforcing privacy and security, a first-in-the nation pairing, according to a news release from the school.
January 22, 2024
Meritless Publicity Claims In AI Copyright Suit Warrant Fee Award, Company Says

SAN FRANCISCO — Because the plaintiffs dropped right-to-publicity claims from their amended complaint challenging artificial intelligence’s use of their works, it is clear that those claims were meritless, and the court should grant a motion to strike and award fees under the state’s anti-SLAPP statute, Stability AI Ltd. tells a federal judge in California in a reply brief.
January 18, 2024
Anthropic Defends Use Of Copyrighted Lyrics, Says Injunction Unnecessary

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Music publishers filed suit in the wrong jurisdiction, but besides that, no evidence suggests that Anthropic PBC’s Claude artificial intelligence will produce copyrighted lyrics going forward absent “special attacks” designed to get it to do so, that the use of those works for training is anything other than fair use or that any use of the copyrighted works caused an injury, the company argues in opposing a preliminary injunction.
January 18, 2024
Committee Seeks To Bar Some Claimants In Vesttoo Cases From Liquidation Vote

WILMINGTON, Del. — The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors on Jan. 17 asked a Delaware federal bankruptcy court to reclassify 49 disputed claims so the joint provisional liquidators (JPLs) that submitted them can’t vote on the committee’s Chapter 11 plan of liquidation for Vesttoo Ltd. and 48 affiliates.
January 17, 2024
Tax Prep Software Firm Says Competitor Misstates AI Comparison, Pricing

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge on Jan. 16 expedited a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) and preliminary injunction in a new lawsuit claiming that misrepresentations about a tax preparation software’s artificial intelligence abilities and pricing violate California’s unfair competition and false advertising laws.
January 12, 2024
COMMENTARY: The Changing Landscape Of Antitrust Scrutiny In A Post-Pandemic World

By Gary Foster, Raphael Kiess and Rishi Chhatwal
January 12, 2024
Stanford Researchers Find ‘Alarmingly High’ Failures In Legal AI

STANFORD, Calif. — Large language models (LLMs) demonstrated an “alarmingly high” error rate when used in the legal field, with the AIs unable to identify core holdings in opinions at least 75% of the time and producing hallucinations at rates of up to 88% when they were asked specific legal inquiries, Stanford University researchers said Jan. 11.
January 11, 2024
AI Can’t Patent Inventions, United Kingdom’s Supreme Court Says

LONDON — The law of the United Kingdom recognizes natural persons as inventors and does not extend to an artificial intelligence, the country’s top court said in affirming denial of two patents.
January 10, 2024
Clothing Retailer Rejects Claims Its AI Systematically Steals

LOS ANGELES — Claims involving a clothing retailer’s use of artificial intelligence implicate ordinary business practices and cannot form the basis of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and copyright claims, Shein Distribution Corp. says in a reply brief rebutting designers’ claims that the company systematically duplicates and steals protected and commercially valuable designs.
January 10, 2024
Plaintiffs Amend Claims Accusing Google Of Data ‘Theft’ To Train AI Chatbot

SAN FRANCISCO — A group of previously anonymous putative class action plaintiffs filed an amended complaint in California federal court identifying themselves as a New York Times bestselling author and several users of Google LLC services, all now accusing Google of “data theft” and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL), copyright laws and other statutes by using their data to train its artificial intelligence chatbot known as “Bard.”
January 10, 2024
Pennsylvania, OpenAI Partnership Puts AI In Administrative Office

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania will employ an enterprise version of ChatGPT for use in its Office of Administration, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Jan. 9 in what a press release called a “first-in-the-nation” pilot program.
January 10, 2024
FTC Warns Of Potential Privacy Pitfalls For AI Companies

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission in a Jan. 9 announcement reminded artificial intelligence companies that they could face regulatory actions if their large language models’ (LLM) voracious demand for data tramples obligations to protect users’ data and privacy, either through the improper use of data or how the company handles representations about what it does with the data.
January 09, 2024
Microsoft, OpenAI Face Journalists’ Suit Over AI Training

NEW YORK — Microsoft Corp. and various OpenAI are no better than any run-of-the-mill thief after they “systematically pilfered” copyrighted works despite enjoying both the means and ability to pay, two journalists allege in a class action filed in federal court in New York.
January 04, 2024
In AI Information Request Case, Justice Upholds ‘Snail Mail’ Appeal Rule

NEW YORK — Even in an era where parties communicate through email about appeals in a case requesting information about an transportation agency’s utilization of artificial intelligence, the government can still require that the actual appeal be filed through traditional mail services, a New York justice said in denying relief in a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) case.
January 02, 2024
AI Generated Fake Cites, Trump-Adjacent Attorney Michael Cohen’s Lawyer Says

NEW YORK — While attempting to secure an early exit from supervised release, Michael Cohen used fake cites he found through Google Inc.’s Bard without realizing that the program was not a “super-charged” search engine but rather a generative artificial intelligence prone to error, according to a letter response filed by Cohen’s lawyer in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
January 02, 2024
Latest AI Copyright Suit Sees New York Times Target Microsoft, OpenAI

NEW YORK — The New York Times Co. (NYT) sued ChatGPT owners Microsoft Corp. and various OpenAI entities for copyright infringement, saying there is nothing transformative about using valuable and protected materials to create a substitute product.
January 02, 2024
Committee Gets OK For Vote On Liquidation Plan In Vesttoo Chapter 11 Cases

WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal bankruptcy judge who is allowing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors to put its Chapter 11 plan of liquidation for Vesttoo Ltd. and 48 affiliates to a vote also granted its motions for leave to conduct discovery against two banking organizations.
December 22, 2023
Former Governor, Others Sever, Transfer, Dismiss Portions Of AI Copyright Suit

NEW YORK — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and other copyright holders who filed suit over the use of their works to train artificial intelligence told a federal judge in New York that they reached an agreement to dismiss one defendant and sever and transfer their claims against Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. to a federal court in California and said they would not oppose a fourth defendant’s motion to stay discovery while the court resolves pending motions.
December 20, 2023
FTC Places 5-Year Ban On Rite Aid Using AI Facial Recognition Software

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rite Aid Corp.’s artificial intelligence facial recognition software generated thousands of false matches, often targeting women or people of color, the Federal Trade Commission said Dec. 19 in announcing that it was imposing a five-year ban on the retailer’s use of the technology.
December 19, 2023
Study: AI Outperforms Human Clinicians In Limited Settings

BOSTON — Large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT-4 performed better than humans at diagnosing five diseases in pre- and post-test situations, but only when the test results were negative, according to a new peer-reviewed study released on the JAMA Network.