Alec Radford, a key developer at OpenAI, has been subpoenaed in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by several authors who accuse OpenAI of using their copyrighted works to train its AI models. The case highlights the ongoing debate over fair use in the context of AI training. While plaintiffs claim that OpenAI has quoted their work without proper attribution, the company asserts its practices fall under fair use provisions. Other former OpenAI employees are also facing legal challenges as the litigation unfolds.
The plaintiffs also argued that ChatGPT infringed their works by liberally quoting those works sans attribution.
OpenAI maintains its use of copyrighted data for training is protected under fair use.
A U.S. magistrate judge ruled this week that Amodei must sit for hours of questioning about the work he did for OpenAI in two copyright cases.
Radford, who left OpenAI late last year to pursue independent research, was the lead author of OpenAI's seminal research paper on generative pre-trained transformers.
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