OpenAI Sued by ANI: Asian News International Files Case Against ChatGPT-Developer for Misusing Unauthorised Copyrighted News Content To Train AI Chatbot, Say Reports

India's largest news agency ANI has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Delhi High Court. Asian News International alleged that ChatGPT-developer used its copyrighted news content without permission to train its AI models.

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Mumbai, November 19: Sam Altman-run OpenAI has been sued by an Indian news agency ANI alleging that the ChatGPT-developer had used its content. One of the largest Indian news agency "Asian News International" filed a case against OpenAI in Delhi High Court on November 18, 2024. The news agency is not the first, earlier, others already filed the case against the company for using the content to train its artificial intelligence (AI).

According to reports , Asian News International filed a 287-page lawsuit in Delhi HC and alleged that OpenAI had illegally used its content to train its AI models and generate false information linking back to the news agency. This is marked as the first ever lawsuit filed by an Indian company accusing the ChatGPT-developer to use its information. Besides ANI, The New York Times (NYT) filed a lawsuit against the OpenAI and Microsoft for illegally using the copyrighted content without pay in 2023.



The Times also claimed that the company used its content to train the AI chatbot. Now, the largest news agency of the most populous country in the world has decided to take a legal action. The case of Asian News International will be heard by the Delhi High Court Justice Amit Bansal.

ANI alleged that the Sam Altman-run company had used its content to train the LLMs (Large Language Models) and pointed out that the AI chatbot ChatGPT generated the content "verbatim" when the users asked via prompt. The news agency said that OpenAI had not obtained any proper authorisation to use its copyrighted content (The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Nov 19, 2024 04:31 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.

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