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District Judge Sidney Stein said the writers, including Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and comedian Sarah Silverman, did not have sufficient interest in New York affairs to justify their intervention.
The writers had tried to convince the New York court to dismiss the cases against OpenAI and Microsoft
MSFT.O, OpenAI’s largest backer, or move them to California. The California court rejected a similar request last month.
“It is unconventional to make the same claims in different venues, but it is certainly something we are equipped to handle,” the writers’ lawyer, Joseph Saveri, said in a statement released Monday.
OpenAI representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Spokespeople for Microsoft, the New York Times and the Authors Guild ( ) declined to comment.
Several groups of copyright holders have filed lawsuits against major tech companies over the alleged misuse of their works to train generative artificial intelligence systems. The authors of the California case sued OpenAI last summer , accusing it of using their books without permission to train the artificial intelligence model underlying its popular chatbot ChatGPT.
The California authors told Mr. Stein that allowing “copied” cases to continue would lead to inconsistent decisions and wasted resources. But on Monday, Mr. Stein said the California and New York cases had “substantial differences.”
“More importantly, for overlapping claims, California plaintiffs have no legally identifiable interest in avoiding rulings that apply to entirely different plaintiffs in a different district,” Mr. Stein said.
2024-04-01 19:20:43
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