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  • January 21, 2025

    Magistrate Judge Rejects Meta’s ‘False Dichotomy,’ Faults Some AI Discovery

    SAN FRANCISCO — Meta Platforms Inc.’s “false dichotomy” about the possible answers regarding its use of copyrighted material in an artificial intelligence case is based on minor quibbles about the extent of the copying and does not “justify the hopelessly vague” answers it offered about what its search of the training data revealed, a federal magistrate judge in California said Jan. 17 in partially granting motions to compel.

  • January 15, 2025

    OpenAI Lays Down ‘Rules Of The Road’ For Regulation, Development

    SAN FRANCISCO — Relying heavily on an analogy to the adoption and management of early automobiles and arguing that a national oversight scheme would allow entrepreneurs and the country to thrive, OpenAI Inc. has laid out what it believes the “rules of the road” should be going forward for adoption and regulation of the technology.

  • January 15, 2025

    Settlement Resolves Claims That Company Overhyped AI Facial Recognition Software

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has reached a settlement with a company that allegedly overstated the accuracy of its artificial intelligence facial recognition software and made misleading claims about the program’s ability to eliminate gender or racial bias.

  • January 14, 2025

    Judge Excludes Expert Over AI Fabrications, Denies Injunction Of Deepfake Law

    MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge in Minnesota entered a judgment declining to enjoin a state law on Jan. 13 after excluding an artificial intelligence expert who inadvertently included AI-fabricated cites in his declaration about misinformation and finding that the lone plaintiff with standing lacked the harm required for a preliminary injunction.

  • January 14, 2025

    AI Voice Cloning Company Voice Actors Brief Motion To Dismiss

    NEW YORK — Responding to an artificial intelligence company’s contention that voice actors’ claims were time-barred and suffered from other defects, two named class action plaintiffs told a federal judge in New York that they own the rights to their voices and that the ongoing use of cloned voices sold under different names places the case within the applicable time frame.

  • January 13, 2025

    United States Weighs In As Musk Responds To Delaware’s Interest In OpenAI Suit

    SAN FRANCISCO — In briefing on a pair of concurrent issues, Elon Musk told a federal judge in California that Delaware’s investigation into OpenAI Inc.’s corporate structuring is welcome, but its tardy entry into the fray and past conduct shows that it already dropped the regulatory ball and in any case cannot protect the plaintiffs’ interests, while the United States on Jan. 10 filed a statement expressing its interest in ensuring proper application of antitrust laws and related interpretation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).

  • January 13, 2025

    Man Says OpenAI Pushed AI It Knew ‘Spits Out Lies’

    ATLANTA — OpenAI Inc. held ChatGPT out as a research tool users could rely on all while knowing that it “spits out lies of every kind imaginable” and warning that its outputs could not be trusted, a man says in opposing summary judgment in a Georgia defamation case.

  • January 09, 2025

    Hospice Provider Can’t Dodge Wiretapping, Privacy Lawsuit

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A customer of an end-of-life care provider sufficiently alleges that the company’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) software to record clients’ telephone conversations without their consent violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), a California federal judge found Jan. 8, denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss.

  • January 09, 2025

    Company Must Produce Witness’ Lawsuit Funding Evidence In OpenAI Trademark Case

    SAN FRANCISCO — A company locked in a suit with OpenAI Inc. over trademark infringement must produce documents related to a nonparty witness who is an investor and is funding the company’s defense as the evidence goes to his credibility and bias, a federal magistrate judge in California said Jan. 8.  In a second order the court granted OpenAI additional time to depose the company’s founder.

  • January 08, 2025

    Musk Says Delaware’s Sudden Interest In OpenAI Comes Too Late

    SAN FRANCISCO — Delaware’s investigation into OpenAI Inc.’s corporate structuring is welcome, but its tardy entry into the fray and past conduct shows that it already dropped the regulatory ball and in any case cannot protect the plaintiffs’ interests, Elon Musk and others tell a federal judge in California in response to an amicus curiae brief.

  • January 07, 2025

    No Sanction For Pro Se Appellant’s AI Usage In Colorado Appeals Court

    DENVER — A Colorado appeals court declined to impose sanctions on a pro se plaintiff who took responsibility for artificial intelligence-generated errors in his brief but warned those who would practice before it in the future that such a mistake would not be accepted going forward.

  • January 07, 2025

    Amicus Warns Against Immunity, Lays Out Path Forward In ChatGPT Defamation Case

    ATLANTA — An amicus urged a Georgia judge not to adopt the “all-or-nothing” approaches offered by the parties in an artificial intelligence defamation case and instead focus on whether OpenAI LLC could have implemented an alternative design that would have prevented the alleged violation.

  • January 06, 2025

    Judge Stays California Deceptive Social Media Labeling Law

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge in California overseeing four cases on Jan. 3 stayed enforcement of a recently enacted law targeting artificial intelligence-created deceptive content that requires social media companies to report, label or remove such content.

  • January 06, 2025

    Music Publishers, Anthropic Agree To Lyric Output Injunction

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge in California granted a stipulated preliminary injunction in a music industry lawsuit over the use of lyrics to train artificial intelligence, requiring Anthropic PBC to keep in place existing guardrails preventing output of lyrics owned by music publishers.

  • January 03, 2025

    9th Circuit Accepts Appeal In GitHub DMCA AI Case

    OAKLAND, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed to hear an appeal in an artificial intelligence (AI) copyright case alleging that the defendants ignored or removed licenses from software published on the online repository GitHub.

  • January 02, 2025

    Delaware Attorney General Discloses Investigation Into OpenAI Organizational Move

    SAN FRANCISCO — The state of Delaware is watching and investigating OpenAI Inc.’s transition from nonprofit to for-profit entity, the state’s attorney general said in an amicus curiae brief filed with a federal court in California that is poised to rule on a request for preliminary injunction in a spat among Elon Musk, Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI over whether the latter company’s current status violates its founding purpose.

  • December 19, 2024

    Parties Debate Expert’s AI Hallucination Errors In AI Law Challenge

    MINNEAPOLIS — Plaintiffs urged a federal judge in Minnesota to reject an amended expert declaration, saying that correcting artificial intelligence-crafted hallucinations after briefing concluded would be prejudicial and that the request is untimely.  But in opposing exclusion of the expert, Minnesota’s attorney general said that even experts make mistakes and that the AI-generated errors went to the weight of the opinion about a challenge to an AI election misinformation law, not the opinion’s admissibility.

  • December 18, 2024

    OpenAI Seeks Dismissal Of YouTube UCL Claims, Says Injury, Conduct Lacking

    SAN FRANCISCO — Copyright law preempts a man’s California unfair competition law (UCL) claims in an artificial intelligence action, and the vague allegations about using YouTube videos in training ChatGPT lack any economic injury or deceptive conduct on which they could be brought and would fail anyway, OpenAI entities tell a federal judge in California in seeking dismissal with prejudice.

  • December 17, 2024

    Altman, Microsoft Downplay Market Power In Musk Injunction Move

    SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI entities and Microsoft Corp., opposing a preliminary injunction sought by Elon Musk, tell a federal court in California that while they partner on limited tasks, there is no agreement between them that violates federal law and that the marketplace for artificial intelligence funding remains robust.

  • December 17, 2024

    Special Master Appointed In Music Industry AI Copyright Suit

    NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York overseeing a music industry copyright suit involving artificial intelligence appointed a special master to the case, saying outstanding issues related to electronically stored information require more attention than the court can provide and that the appointment will help resolve the litigation.

  • December 13, 2024

    Children Charged After Allegedly Crafting Hundreds Of Nudes Of Students With AI

    LANCASTER, Pa. — Two male students at a Pennsylvania school were charged in the juvenile system for allegedly creating and distributing hundreds of nonconsensual artificial intelligence-generated images of 60 girls, 48 of whom were students at the school, according to a release from the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office (LCDA).

  • December 11, 2024

    OpenAI Challenges Ruling Denying Evidence Of New York Times’ AI Use

    NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. objected to a magistrate judge’s decision denying the company access to evidence of how the New York Times Co. uses artificial intelligence, saying the ruling permits the newspaper company to speak “out of both sides of its mouth” by allowing it to seek billions of dollar in damages while embracing the same technology it denigrates.

  • December 11, 2024

    Character.AI Faces 2nd Suit Claiming AI Harmed Child

    MARSHALL, Texas — Character Technologies Inc. now faces at least two products liability and negligence actions stemming from interactions with its artificial intelligence chatbot after plaintiffs filed suit in a Texas federal court claiming that the technology lacks reasonable barriers and as a result advises children to oppose their parents and harm themselves and offers age-inappropriate sexual content.

  • December 03, 2024

    COMMENTARY: The Future Of Work: Exploring The Employment And Data Protection Law Implications Of The Use Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) In European Workplaces

    By Matthew Howse, Louise Skinner, Vishnu Shankar and William Mallin

  • November 21, 2024

    COMMENTARY: Fine-Tuning Your Policy Statements For The Age Of AI

    By Michael Kearney and Judy Branham