OpenAI promises to fund legal costs for ChatGPT users sued over copyright

OpenAI says it will cover the legal costs for business-tier ChatGPT users that discover themselves in hot water over copyright infringement.OpenAI is calling its promise Copyright Shield which only covers users of its business-tier ChatGPT Enterprise and its designer platform. OpenAI isnt covering users of the totally free and Plus ChatGPT versions.On Nov. 6 at the businesss very first designer conference DevDay, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said “we will step in and defend our customers and pay the costs sustained if you deal with legal claims around copyright violation and this uses both to ChatGPT Enterprise and the API. Adobe and Shutterstock– stock image suppliers with generative AI offerings– likewise made the exact same promise.OpenAIs DevDay also saw the firm announce that users can quickly produce custom ChatGPT designs with the choice to sell them on an approaching app shop along with a brand-new and upgraded AI model called ChatGPT-4 Turbo.Related: AI chatbots are illegally ripping off copyrighted news, says media groupOpenAI is facing a list of suits declaring it used copyrighted material to train its AI models.Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, along with two others, took legal action against OpenAI in July declaring ChatGPTs training data includes their copyrighted work accessed from unlawful online libraries.OpenAI was hit with at least 2 further matches in September.

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