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While the class action lawsuit against Microsoft will likely catch the attention of many in the industry, whether it will bring some clarity on how to regulate generative AI is less clear.
November 15, 2022 at 05:16 PM
5 minute read
Artificial Intelligence
Earlier this month, Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI were hit with a class action lawsuit alleging that they violated copyright law with their AI-powered coding assistant GitHub Copilot.
“This is the first step in what will be a long jour­ney,” wrote Matthew Butterick, programmer and lawyer who filed the lawsuit with the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, on a public website providing updates about the litigation. “As far as we know, this is the first class-action case in the U.S. challeng­ing the train­ing and out­put of AI sys­tems.”
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