Key ex-OpenAI researcher subpoenaed in AI copyright case
Alec Radford, a researcher who has contributed to the development of many of the most important AI technologies of OpenAi, has been summoned in a copyright case against the AI startup, According to a court Tuesday.
The application, submitted by a lawyer for the claimants at the US court in the Northern district of California, indicated that Radford received a summons on 25 February.
Radford, who left OpenAI at the end of last year to pursue independent research, was the main author of OpenAI’s groundbreaking research paper on generative pre -trained transformers (GPTS). GPTS endorses the most popular products from OpenAI, including the AI-driven chatbot platform of the company, chatgpt.
Radford joined OpenAi in 2016, one year after the company was founded. He worked on different models in the company’s GPT series, as well as a speech recognition model, Whisper, and Dall-E, the image generating model of the company.
The copyright case, “Re OpenAi Chatgpt Litigation”, was brought by Boek Authors, including Paul Tremblay, Sarah Silverman and Michael Chabon, who claimed that OpenAi infringed their copyright by using their AI models. The claimants also argued that Chatgpt infringed their works by generously citing those works without attributing.
Last year, the court rejected two of the claims of the claimants against OpenAi, but the claim made a direct infringement. OpenAI maintains the use of copyrighted data for training is protected under reasonable use.
Redford is not the only controversial figure who are trying to fight lawyers for the authors. The lawyers of the claimants have also moved to force the deposition of Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, both former opai employees who left the company to start anthropic. Amodei and Mann fought against the movements and claim that they are too heavy.
An American magistrate judge Ruled this week That Amodei has to question for hours about the work he did for OpenAi in two copyright matters, including a case submitted by the Authors Guild.
