Judge Throws Out News Outlets’ Case Against OpenAI [Video]

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet, which accused OpenAI of misusing their copyrighted content to train its AI language model ChatGPT.

On November 7, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in New York granted OpenAI’s request to dismiss the complaint in its entirety, stating that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a concrete injury required for legal standing under Article 3 of the U.S. Constitution.

The decision marks one of the first major legal wins for an AI company facing copyright infringement allegations from news publishers.

Newsweek contacted OpenAI and the publisher of both Raw Story and AlterNet via email for comment.

“Plaintiffs have not alleged any actual adverse effects stemming from this alleged DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) violation,” McMahon wrote in her decision. “No concrete harm, no standing.”

She added that the plaintiffs did not provide specific examples of ChatGPT reproducing their copyrighted …