Copyright Allegations Against OpenAI's Generative Language Models: Harm Prevention and AI Governance
June 11, 2018
In a class action lawsuit, two authors claimed that OpenAI infringed copyrights by incorporating unauthorized 'shadow libraries' containing copyrighted books in the training data of its generative LLMs like ChatGPT. This AI incident underscores the need for trustworthy AI practices and guardrails for AI, particularly in relation to the Govern function of Project Cerebellum's Trusted AI Model (TAIM). JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- openai
- Alleged developer
- openai
- Alleged harmed parties
- paul-tremblay, mona-awad, authors-of-copyrighted-works
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/555
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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