Delhi HC summons OpenAI on copyright infringement suit by ANI
This story was originally published at 14:14 IST on 19 November 2024
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NEW DELHI – The Delhi High Court on Tuesday summoned artificial intelligence research organisation OpenAI Inc on ANI Media Pvt. Ltd.'s suit alleging that the California-based company was training ChatGPT with material that had the news organisation's copyright. This is the first copyright infringement suit in India against ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI.
The high court issued notices to OpenAI and other parties on ANI's interim injunction application and listed the case for hearing on Jan. 28. Since the matter was complex and required detailed hearing, Justice Amit Bansal said he was not inclined to pass any interim order on Tuesday. The court appointed an amicus curiae after considering the range of issues involved in the suit, as well as the issues arising out of technological advancements with regard to the copyright of various owners.
Appearing for ANI, advocate Sidhant Kumar said that OpenAI was training ChatGPT with ANI's copyright material. "The software is provided with data to train its large language model. It stores my content and makes it available online," Kumar said. There is a public interest angle in the petition as well, said Kumar. ChatGPT falsely attributes ANI for political news, he said, adding that it could lead to spreading of fake news, having the propensity to cause public disorder.
On a query by Justice Bansal on whether there were more lawsuits filed against ChatGPT in India, advocate Amit Sibal, appearing for OpenAI, said that this was the first suit filed against ChatGPT in India. Sibal said there were 13 lawsuits in the US, two in Canada, and one in Germany. There is no injunction against ChatGPT and no court has found that it has infringed copyright, Sibal said.
Sibal said ChatGPT had not accessed anyone's data wrongly. No cause of action arises in India against ChatGPT since training does not happen in India and there are no servers here, said Sibal. In his reply, Kumar asked how ChatGPT could use ANI's copyright content for commercial gains. "When users make their queries, its response is taken from my content, which is also unauthorisedly stored on its database," said Kumar. Further, Sibal said ANI has been on a manual blocklist since October 2024 by ChatGPT. Sibal said that earlier, ANI had sent a legal notice to OpenAI, and it was replied to as well. End
Reported by Surya Tripathi
Edited by Avishek Dutta
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