During its inaugural presentation, the developer of ChatGPT revealed an app store, a fresh AI model, and a legal approach for handling copyright infringement lawsuits
Instead of removing copyrighted content from ChatGPT’s training dataset, the chatbot’s creator is proposing to cover the legal expenses for copyright infringement suits faced by its users.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated on Monday, “We can defend our customers and pay the costs incurred if you face legal claims around copyright infringement, and this applies both to ChatGPT Enterprise and the API.” This compensation initiative, named Copyright Shield, is applicable to users of the business tier, ChatGPT Enterprise, as well as developers utilizing ChatGPT’s application programming interface. Users of the free version of ChatGPT or ChatGPT+ are not eligible for this offer.
While OpenAI is not the pioneer in providing legal protection, as the creator of the immensely popular ChatGPT with 100 million weekly users, it holds significant influence in the industry. Comparable offers have been made by industry giants like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon for their generative AI software. Likewise, Getty Images, Shutterstock, and Adobe have also offered similar financial liability protection for their image creation software.
Altman disclosed this information during OpenAI’s inaugural developer conference, designed to engage programmers involved with ChatGPT. Approximately 900 developers from various regions attended the event. Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, was also present during Altman’s presentation. Additionally, Altman introduced a ChatGPT app store set to launch later this month, providing a platform for developers to promote and monetize custom bots created with ChatGPT. Alongside this, a new model, GPT-4 Turbo, was unveiled.
Renowned authors, including Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, Michael Chabon, George RR Martin, Jodi Picoult, and the Authors Guild, have initiated at least three legal actions against OpenAI. These lawsuits allege the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in training the chatbot, which generates text based on user prompts. In the development of such software, AI companies input billions of lines of text obtained from the internet, including databases containing tens of thousands of copyrighted books. OpenAI has previously expressed optimism, stating, “We’re hopeful that we will continue to discover mutually beneficial ways to collaborate in enabling people to leverage new technology within a diverse content ecosystem.
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