Open AI has requested centralization of the eight copyright infringement lawsuits against it in the USA, giving ElectronLibre the opportunity to take stock of these complaints filed by a number of writers, screenwriters, several newspapers and, more recently, hundreds of « YouTubers ». Open AI, the company that launched ChatGPT, is the subject of eight parallel lawsuits in the United States by hundreds of authors and some 15 newspaper publishers, including the New York Times. All are seeking compensation from the company founded by Sam Altman for copyright infringement resulting from the use of their works in ChatGPT’s training, without their authorization. Between the first complaint, filed on June 28, 2023 in San Francisco by American writer and publisher Paul Tremblay, and the latest « Millette v Open AI » class action, launched by dozens of YouTubers on August 2, multiple complaints have piled up one…
