The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a summons to OpenAI following a lawsuit filed by Asian News International (ANI), which accuses the tech firm of using its copyrighted content without permission to train and operate its AI chatbot, ChatGPT. Justice Amit Bansal highlighted OpenAI’s response of blocking ANI’s website to mitigate the issue, but ANI argues that such measures are insufficient.
The case underscores significant copyright concerns involving the use of publicly available data by AI technologies. ANI alleges that their copyrighted content has been utilized by OpenAI to enhance ChatGPT’s functionalities, which they claim also leads to the dissemination of false information.
Advocate Sidhant Kumar for ANI detailed how ChatGPT allegedly misrepresents data, including attributing non-existent interviews to ANI, potentially damaging its credibility. OpenAI’s counsel, Senior Advocate Amit Sibal, countered by noting that no infringement has been legally established in similar international cases, and questioned the basis of ANI’s claims given the lack of direct reproduction of content in India.
