German music rights association GEMA initiated legal action before a Munich district court on Wednesday against US artificial intelligence company OpenAI relating to OpenAI’s ChatGPT language generator.
“The AI-supported ChatGPT language system was trained among other things with copyrighted texts, including lyrics taken from the repertoire of around 95,000 GEMA members,” GEMA alleged.
OpenAI had failed to secure a licence for them and had not compensated the authors for the use of their work, it said.
GEMA brought the action against OpenAI and the European operator of the chatbot, OpenAI Ireland. There was no statement initially from OpenAI
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