
According to a spokesman on Friday, Indian book publishers and their foreign equivalents have launched a copyright action against OpenAI in New Delhi. This is the most recent in a string of worldwide lawsuits aimed at preventing the ChatGPT chatbot from accessing intellectual information.
Authors, media organisations, and musicians are suing tech companies worldwide for allegedly utilising their copyrighted works to train AI systems. They want the content used to train the chatbot removed. The Federation of Indian Publishers, based in New Delhi, informed Reuters that it has brought a petition before the Delhi High Court, which is now considering a related case against OpenAI.
All of the federation’s members, including publishers Bloomsbury, Penguin Random House, Cambridge University Press, and Pan Macmillan, as well as Rupa Publications and S. Chand and Co. of India, were represented in the lawsuit, it stated.
In an interview regarding the complaint, which relates to the book summaries produced by the ChatGPT tool, Pranav Gupta, the general secretary of the federation, stated, “We ask the court to stop (OpenAI) accessing our copyright content.” “They should remove datasets used in AI training and clarify how we will be paid if they choose not to work with us on licensing. Creativity is affected by this,” he continued.
A request for comment on the claims and the case, which was filed in December but is being reported here for the first time, was not answered by OpenAI. It has consistently refuted these claims, claiming that its AI algorithms use openly accessible data fairly. With the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, OpenAI sparked a flurry of financial, consumer, and business interest in generative AI.
After financing $6.6 billion last year, it aims to lead the AI race. The consortium of Indian book publishers wants to join the nation’s most well-known court action against Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which is being brought by Indian news agency ANI.
“These cases mark a turning point and have the potential to influence India’s future AI legal framework. The ruling rendered today will put to the test the harmony between advancing technology and safeguarding intellectual property,” said Mumbai-based attorney Siddharth Chandrashekhar.
In comments published by Reuters this week, OpenAI responded to the ANI lawsuit by stating that any order to remove training data would violate the business’s legal duties in the United States and that Indian judges are not qualified to consider a copyright action against the company because its servers are situated outside. According to the federation, since OpenAI provides services in India, its operations ought to be governed by Indian law.
In a statement, Reuters, which owns 26% of ANI, stated that it had no involvement in the company’s operations or business procedures. Last year, OpenAI made its first appointment in India when it hired Pragya Misra, a former WhatsApp executive, to manage partnerships and public policy in the 1.4 billion-person nation, where millions of new users are joining the internet as a result of low mobile data costs.