OPENAI-ANI-LAWSUITOpenAI informs an Indian court that removing ChatGPT data would violate US legal requirements.
Reuters, NEW DELHI - According to a recent petition obtained by Reuters, OpenAI informed an Indian court that any order to delete the training data that underpins its ChatGPT service would be in conflict with its legal duties in the US.
Additionally, the Microsoft-backed AI company claimed that since OpenAI was not present in India, it was outside the purview of Indian courts to consider a copyright infringement action filed by local news organization ANI.
In November, ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Delhi, alleging that the company had used its published content to train ChatGPT without authorization. This was the most well-known and keenly followed case on AI use in India.
In a previously unreported 86-page filing at the Delhi High Court on January 10, OpenAI addressed the complaint, which also requests the removal of ANI's data that ChatGPT has already stored.
Prominent copyright owners have filed a number of similar cases against OpenAI and other companies for allegedly misusing their creations to train AI models. One such complaint was filed in the US by the New York Times against OpenAI.
OpenAI has consistently refuted the accusations, claiming that its AI systems use data that is freely accessible to the public.
OpenAI informed the Delhi court during a hearing in November that it would no longer use ANI's content, but the news organization said that its published works were saved in ChatGPT's memory and need to be Deleted.
According to OpenAI's Jan. 10 submission, the company is defending against lawsuits in the US pertaining to the data used to train its models, and the rules there require it to keep the data safe while proceedings are ongoing.
Open AI "is therefore under a legal obligation, under the laws of the United States to preserve, and not delete, the said training data" , added the statement.
A request for response from OpenAI was not answered.
In its response, OpenAI further stated that the relief sought by ANI was outside the purview of Indian courts and was not subject to their procedures.
The business has "no office or permanent establishment in India ... the servers on which (ChatGPT) stores its training data are similarly situated outside of India" .
In a statement, ANI, of which Reuters owns 26%, stated that it would submit a thorough response and that it believes the Delhi court has the authority to make a decision on the issue.
A request for comment from Reuters was not immediately answered, although the agency stated in November that it had no involvement with the operations or business practices of ANI.
The matter is scheduled to be heard by the New Delhi court on January 28.
After raising $6.6 billion last year, OpenAI has been preparing to go from a non-profit to a for-profit company in an effort to raise even more money to maintain its lead in the expensive AI race.
It has recently inked agreements to display material with Time magazine, the Financial Times, Axel Springer, the publisher of Business Insider, Le Monde in France, and Prisa Media in Spain.
OpenAI's commercial collaborations with other news organizations have also raised concerns about unfair competition, according to ANI, which told the court that ChatGPT reprinted verbatim or substantially comparable portions of ANI's works at user prompts.
ANI "has sought to use verbatim extracts of its own article as a prompt, in an attempt to manipulate ChatGPT," according to OpenAI's response submission.
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