OpenAI vows to defend certain ChatGPT users in court
Developer moves after rivals made similar commitments | ChatGPT creator faces several copyright infringement suits | New tools launched alongside copyright scheme.
OpenAI has pledged to defend some of its users against allegations of copyright infringement, following similar commitments made by Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Getty Images, Shutterstock and Adobe.
The ChatGPT creator confirmed the move in a post yesterday, November 6, following its first showcase event held in San Francisco.
In the statement, the developer says that the company is “committed to protecting our customers with built-in copyright safeguards in our systems”.
“Today, we’re going one step further and introducing Copyright Shield—we will now step in and defend our customers, and pay the costs incurred, if you face legal claims around copyright infringement.”
At present, the safeguard applies to generally available features of ChatGPT Enterprise and its developer platform.
However, the offer does not extend to users of the free version of ChatGPT or ChatGPT+.
OpenAI launches GPT-4 Turbo
During the conference in California, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also announced a trio of new features available to customers including the GPT-4 Turbo; and technology that enables users to build their own assistive AI apps; as well as new multimodal capabilities in the platform, including vision and image creation ( DALL·E 3), and text-to-speech (TTS).
OpenAI is currently facing copyright lawsuits filed by prominent novelists.
Earlier this year, authors George R.R. Martin, Michael Crichton and Jodi Piccoult alongside The Authors Guild accused the AI developer of copyright infringement after it produced “accurately generated summaries” of their works when prompted.
In September, Microsoft announced that it would be responsible for any potential legal risks and damages arising from copyright infringement claims incurred by users of its Copilot services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot.
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