OpenAI is contesting the attempts by various Indian media organizations, including those associated with Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani, to participate in a copyright lawsuit against the U.S. firm. According to a legal document reviewed by Reuters, OpenAI maintains that it has not utilized their content for training ChatGPT. The company, supported by Microsoft, emphasized in its 31-page court submission that it is not obligated to collaborate with media entities to access content that is publicly available. This legal dispute began last year when the Indian news agency ANI accused OpenAI of using its published materials without authorization for artificial intelligence training. Since that time, several book publishers and media organizations have expressed interest in joining the lawsuit.
Among those seeking to join the case are NDTV, owned by Adani, The Indian Express, The Hindustan Times, and the Digital News Publishers Association, which includes Ambani’s Network18. These groups claim that OpenAI has extracted content from their news websites and displayed it on ChatGPT. However, in its filing dated February 11, OpenAI refuted the allegations, asserting that it has not employed any of their content for training its AI models. While OpenAI has established licensing agreements with numerous news publishers worldwide, Indian media organizations contend that the company has not pursued similar agreements within India. OpenAI clarified in its legal filing that its international partnerships do not entail licensing content for AI training, and it is permitted to use publicly available content under Indian copyright legislation.
