AI Lawsuits

The one apparently mentioned in the article:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67535351/pm-v-openai-lp/

plus a bonus:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67538258/tremblay-v-openai-inc/

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/openai-microsoft-sued-read-the-full-list-of-complaints-about-chatgpt

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This is the Magistrate:

https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/judges/spero-joseph-c-jcs/

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Sara Silverman joins in:

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FTC:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/67a7081c-c770-4f05-a39e-9d02117e50e8.pdf

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Defamation:

Armed America Radio touts one of its hosts, Mark Walters, as the “loudest voice in America fighting for gun rights.” Now it appears that Walters’ prominent commentary on gun rights and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF)—a gun rights nonprofit that gave him a distinguished service award in 2017—has led generative AI chatbot ChatGPT to wrongly connect dots and make false and allegedly malicious statements about the radio host. That includes generating potentially libelous statements that Walters was once SAF’s chief financial officer and treasurer and that he was accused of embezzling funds and defrauding SAF.

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The parody almost writes itself:

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Walters case removed to federal court:

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A different issue:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68195331/main-sequence-ltd-v-dudesy-llc/
Original appears to have been taken down, but excerpted:

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There’s perhaps a good case system welfare case to be made for this: the estate can do some quality control on the generated nonsense.

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https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68290709/raw-story-media-inc-v-openai-inc/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68290804/the-intercept-media-inc-v-openai-inc/

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Voiceover artists.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68535780/lehrman-v-lovo-inc/

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The rumor is that many of these “antitrust” lawsuits are really intended to help politically-embedded Google leverage the government to hurt its competitors.

On this note, here’s a new case, a very interesting one: Zuckerman v. Meta and the Puzzle of Section 230(c)(2) - Center for Democracy and Technology

On September 5, 2024, CDT joined an amicus brief in support of his lawsuit against Meta, which seeks protection for him to launch Unfollow Everything 2.0, a tool that would allow users to “turn off their newsfeeds” and curate their own experiences on Facebook. The case asks the court to revisit an underappreciated but central aspect of Section 230 and, if successful, may solve part of the puzzle of how to give users more control over their online experiences.

Here’s the brief:

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Blade Runner 2049 producers v. Tesla:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69280385/alcon-entertainment-llc-v-tesla-inc/

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https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69300919/garcia-v-character-technologies-inc/

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Looks like this thread could take an unexpected turn:

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No. China and IP theft? Never.

I couldn’t pick a better company for it to happen to than OpenAI.

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You beat me to it.

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