ANI v ChatGPT: How a lawsuit could shape artificial intelligence in India
Courts worldwide have been grappling with copyright law implications of how artificial intelligence platforms train themselves by relying on online content.
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News agency Asian News International’s November 19 copyright infringement suit against United States-based OpenAI in the Delhi High Court has finally brought before an Indian judge a complex legal question that courts across the world have been wrestling with: are artificial intelligence platforms liable for copyright infringement?
OpenAI operates the popular advanced artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT which is trained on vast amounts of text from the internet.
Legal experts that Scroll spoke with expressed unanimity that this is an unresolved legal question, with no global precedent. How the Delhi High Court resolves it will have ramifications for how artificial intelligence platforms develop and operate in India.
The lawsuit
In its lawsuit against OpenAI, ANI claimed that ChatGPT uses its material to train its language model, storing and reproducing copyrighted content for commercial purposes without permission. OpenAI countered, stating it has no servers or offices in India and denied reproducing ANI’s material in the country.
OpenAI also claimed that since October, on the receipt of the lawsuit, it had blocked ANI’s website for the purpose of training ChatGPT.
ANI further alleged that ChatGPT generates responses using ANI’s content verbatim and falsely attributes statements, including fabricated ones, to the agency. These inaccuracies, known as so-called hallucinations in the field of artificial intelligence, threaten ANI’s reputation and risk...
