Mealey's Artificial Intelligence
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April 30, 2024
California UCL Claims At Core Of Briefing In ChatGPT AI Case
SAN FRANCISCO — Briefing recently wrapped in California federal court on a motion to dismiss claims in consolidated lawsuits in which authors allege that OpenAI Inc. and others violated the California unfair competition law (UCL) by training artificial intelligence on copyrighted material.
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April 30, 2024
Former Governor Defends AI Copyright Suit From Vagueness, Fair Use Challenges
NEW YORK — Allegations of a news and finance organization’s illicit use of copyrighted material in the training of artificial intelligence suffice to survive a motion to dismiss, and the company’s conclusory statements about fair and intended uses could open “Pandora’s box,” former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and others argue in opposing a motion to dismiss filed in a federal court in New York. The defendants argue that general statements about training of AI and the lack of allegations of commercial usage of the product doom the complaint.
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April 25, 2024
COMMENTARY: Interview: Author Stephen Marche Discusses AI, The Writing Process And Copyright Implications
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April 26, 2024
AI Hiring Company Sufficiently Targeted Illinois For Jurisdiction, Class Says
CHICAGO — The intentional contacts an artificial intelligence hiring platform company created with Illinois provide for jurisdiction, and the court should reject the company’s attempts to downplay the reality of those connections, class action plaintiffs say in an April 25 opposition. Previously, the company asked the court to reconsider its ruling finding jurisdiction in the state.
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April 25, 2024
Workday Opposes EEOC Brief Saying AI’s Use Doesn’t Redefine Employment Agency
SAN FRANCISCO — Workday Inc. opposed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s motion to participate in a discrimination case involving artificial intelligence employment software as amicus curiae, portraying the brief as an improper second opposition to a motion to dismiss. Earlier, the EEOC said the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in screening and sorting job candidates offers a “more sophisticated means” of performing employment agency tasks but does not differentiate the company from traditional employment agencies.
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April 23, 2024
Propriety Of $100 Stability AI Stock Sale At Issue In Delaware Briefing
WILMINGTON, Del. — A man who claims that he was duped into selling what are now millions of dollars’ worth of Stability AI Inc. shares for $100 tells a Delaware court that he reasonably relied on statements that the company was worthless. But the defendants say in their motion to dismiss that the man had his own reasons for selling the stock and that he hopes to receive a windfall based on a case of buyer’s remorse.
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April 23, 2024
Judge Notes Importance Of Music Industry’s AI Suit, Won’t Provide Timeline
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal judge said two motions, one seeking a preliminary injunction and another seeking dismissal, in music publishers’ case alleging copyright infringement against Anthropic PBC over the training of its artificial intelligence remain “a priority” and that he was aware that the plaintiffs hoped for expedited disposition but said he would provide no timeline for a decision.
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April 23, 2024
Researcher Says Amazon Fired Her For Taking Maternity Leave During AI Race
LOS ANGELES — Worried that it was losing the race to develop artificial intelligence and panicked by the release of ChatGPT, Amazon.com Services LLC played catch-up in part by barring employee leave, an AI researcher alleges in a complaint claiming that the company mistreated her for taking legally protected maternity leave and fired her when she complained about her treatment.
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April 15, 2024
COMMENTARY: AI In Dispute Resolution – Can AI Replace Human Judges, Lawyers And Experts?
By Nikki Coles and Lucia Yau
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April 18, 2024
Judge Won’t Rethink Dismissal Ruling In GitHub AI Copyright Suit
OAKLAND, Calif. — Five Doe defendants who claim that they did not receive proper attribution for use of their licensed materials on GitHub Inc.’s online collaboration platform failed in their quest for reconsideration of dismissal of their claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) when a California federal judge ruled that they did not “show reasonable diligence in bringing the motion” and did not establish any of the prerequisites for justifying reconsideration.
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April 18, 2024
Chapter 11 Liquidation Plan Becomes Effective In Vesttoo Bankruptcy Cases
WILMINGTON, Del. — In a notice outlining several bar dates, the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors told a Delaware federal bankruptcy court that a Chapter 11 plan of liquidation for Vesttoo Ltd. and its dozens of affiliates went into effect after conditions precedent were “satisfied or waived.”
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April 16, 2024
California Plaintiffs Appeal Denial Of Intervention In New York OpenAI Suits
NEW YORK — California plaintiffs whose motion to intervene in New York artificial intelligence copyright infringement cases filed a notice of appeal after the federal judge overseeing the New York cases concluded that the similar but different defendants and claims required denying the request.
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April 16, 2024
Microsoft, OpenAI Defend Using News To Train AI In Copyright Suit
NEW YORK — A news organization never explains how any use of its material to train ChatGPT could have injured it, that copyright management information was removed in anything but a private setting or that the artificial intelligence reproduces protected works, Microsoft Corp. and various OpenAI Inc. entities told a federal court in New York in a pair of April 15 motions to dismiss.
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April 16, 2024
Music Industry Seeks Expedited Review Of AI Infringement Action
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Music publishers asked a federal judge in Tennessee for the status of their request for a preliminary injunction enjoining Anthropic PBC’s training of its artificial intelligence, saying expedited review of the motion and details on when the court plans to hold oral arguments will allow for an efficient presentation.
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April 15, 2024
AI Hiring Company Says Court Got Illinois Jurisdiction Ruling Wrong
CHICAGO — Illinois is an improper jurisdiction for an artificial intelligence-assisted interview case in which five of the six named plaintiffs were never in the state, and the court reached a contrary conclusion by relying on precedent ignoring that application software is not a product and the role a third party played in its use, the company argues in a motion for reconsideration of a federal judge in Illinois’ ruling denying a motion to dismiss.
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April 12, 2024
California Committee Passes Bill Requiring AI Disclosure In Political Advertising
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California Assembly committee passed legislation that would require anyone who creates, publishes or distributes political advertising substantially generated by artificial intelligence to disclose such use.
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April 11, 2024
Insurer Accused Of Using AI Software To Deny Claims ‘En Masse’ In Class Suit
OAKLAND, Calif. — An insured filed a putative class action in California state court accusing his insurer of violating California’s insurance regulations and its unfair competition law (UCL) by using artificial intelligence (AI) software to deny claims for coverage.
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April 11, 2024
EEOC Says AI’s Use Doesn’t Redefine Employment Agency Status
SAN FRANCISCO — Workday Inc.’s use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in screening and sorting job candidates offers a “more sophisticated means” of performing these tasks but does not differentiate the company from traditional employment agencies, the Equal Opportunity Employment Agency (EEOC) says in seeking to file an amicus curiae brief in support of a man who claims to have been discriminated against and is battling a motion to dismiss his case.
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April 10, 2024
Judge Won’t Reconsider Ruling That OpenAI Is Mark’s Owner
SAN FRANCISCO — A company and its owner have not shown that a finding that OpenAI Inc. is the only bona fide user of a trademark requires reconsideration or was reached in error, and the defendants cannot simply change attorneys and seek “a re-do” of the resulting preliminary injunction ruling, a federal judge in California said.
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April 10, 2024
Court Erred On Timing, Logic In OpenAI Trademark Dispute, Party Says
SAN FRANCISCO — No evidence supports the conclusion that the OpenAI mark acquired secondary meaning by September 2022, and the court’s holding otherwise ignores that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied it that status as late as April 2023, a competitor for the mark says in a motion for reconsideration.
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April 08, 2024
Washington Judge Excludes AI-Enhanced Video From Murder Trial
SEATTLE — An artificial intelligence-enhanced video of a mass shooting does not meet the Frye v. United States standard, and the admission of such opaque and nonpeer-reviewable evidence would likely only introduce prejudice and complications into a murder trial, a Washington state court judge said in excluding the video.
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April 08, 2024
‘Make Believe’ Can’t Form Basis Of Lawsuit, OpenAI Says In Response To Musk
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk’s “make-believe ‘founding agreement’” provides no basis for his suit against OpenAI Inc. entities involving how the company has handled ChatGPT’s evolution, and the court should grant a demurrer on California unfair competition law (UCL), contract and fiduciary claims because the vague complaint leaves everyone guessing what the actual allegations are, OpenAI says in a pair of filings in California.
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April 05, 2024
Estate Settles Suit Over Artificial Intelligence George Carlin Comedy Video
LOS ANGELES — George Carlin’s representatives settled copyright and privacy claims against the entities responsible for creating an artificial intelligence presentation featuring his voice and likeness, with the defendants agreeing to stipulated consent judgment enjoining the creation of or otherwise using the comedian’s image, voice or likeness.
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April 04, 2024
Judge: California Plaintiffs Can’t Intervene In New York OpenAI Copyright Suits
NEW YORK — California plaintiffs lack sufficient interest in New York copyright infringement cases involving similar but different defendants and claims arising from the training of artificial intelligence, a federal judge in New York said in denying a motion to intervene.
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April 03, 2024
Magistrate Says AI Produced ‘No Probative Information’ In Fee Dispute
NEW YORK — While a law firm’s reliance on ChatGPT for the proper attorney fee rate in an Individuals with Disabilities Education Act suit is novel, the artificial intelligence returned “no probative information” despite producing 14 pages of results, a federal magistrate judge in New York said in awarding, but reducing, requested fees on April 2.