Reuters’ recent filings show that Openai has told Indian courts that any order to delete training data that powers its ChatGpt service is inconsistent with its legal obligations in the United States.
The Microsoft Bassed AI company also said it had heard copyright violation cases filed by local news agency ANI within the jurisdiction of Indian courts because Openai did not exist in the country.
In India’s most eye-catching and strictest lawsuits for AI use, Ani sued Openai in Delhi in November, accusing him of using content published by the news agency without the permission of Chatgpt.
Openai responded to the lawsuit, which is also seeking to delete ANI data already stored by Chatgpt, which was in an 86-page document in the Delhi High Court on January 10 and has not been reported before.
OpenAI and other companies face similar lawsuits from prominent copyright owners for alleged abuse of their jobs to train AI models, including cases filed by The New York Times against OpenAI in the United States.
Openai repeatedly denied the allegations, saying its AI system could reasonably utilize publicly available data.
At a hearing in November, Openai told the Delhi court that it would no longer use ANI’s content, but the news agency believes its published work is stored in Chatgpt’s memory and should be deleted.
Openai said in a Jan. 10 submission that it is currently defending lawsuits over data training its models, where laws require it to retain data at a pending hearing.
Therefore, maintaining rather than deleting the above training data under U.S. law, Openai “is a legal obligation.”
Openai did not respond to a request for comment.
Openai also stated in the filing that the reliefs claimed by ANI are not subject to the proceedings of Indian courts and are beyond their jurisdiction.
The company “has no offices or permanent establishments in India… (CHATGPT) servers that store their training data are also located outside India”.
ANI, which holds 26% of interest, said in a statement that it believes the Delhi court has jurisdiction to rule the matter and will provide a detailed response.
A Reuters spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the agency said in November it had no involvement in ANI’s business practices or operations.
The New Delhi court will hear the case on January 28.
Openai has been working on a transition from a nonprofit business to a for-profit business as it hopes to get more money to stay ahead of expensive AI games after raising $6.6 billion last year.
In recent months, it has signed deals with Time Magazine, Financial Times, Business Insider owner Axel Springer, France’s Le Monde and Spain’s Prisa Media.
ANI also said that given OpenAI’s business partnership with other news organizations, it feared unfair competition and told the court that Chatgpt copied verbatim or performed a substantially similar extraction of ANI’s work in response to user prompts.
Openai argued in a rebuttal submission that ANI “tryed to use verbatim extraction of its articles to try to manipulate Chatgpt”.
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