Alec Radford, a researcher who helped develop many of the most important AI technologies in Openai, was charged in a copyright case against the KI startup. According to a court report on Tuesday.
The submission submitted by a lawyer for the plaintiffs to the US district court in the northern district of California showed that Radford served a summons on February 25.
Radford, who left Openai at the end of last year to follow independent research, was the main author of Opena’s pioneering research paper on generative transformers (GPTS). GPTS underpin open the most popular products, including the company’s AI-based chatbot platform, chat.
Radford came to Openaai in 2016, a year after the company was founded. He worked on several models in the company’s GPT series and on a speech recognition model Whisper and Dall-E, the company generation model of the company.
The copyright case “Re Openaa Chatgpt Litilation” was brought by book authors such as Paul Tremblay, Sarah Silverman and Michael Chabon, who claimed that Openaai had violated their copyrights by using their work to form his AI models. The plaintiffs also argued that Chatgpt had violated their works by generously quoting these works without attribution.
In the past year, the court rejected two claims by the plaintiffs against Openaai, but had the right to be injured. Openai claims that the use of copyrighted data is protected for training fair use.
Redford is not the only top -class figure that lawyers try to argue for the authors. The plaintiffs’ lawyers have also forced the deposition of Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, both former Openai employees who left the company for Anthropic. Amodei and Mann fought the applications and claimed that they are excessively stressful.
A US judge Ruled this week that Amodei for hours in two copyright cases, including A Fall submitted by the Author’s Guild.
