A key former Openai researcher summoned to the AI ​​Copyright case

Alec Radford, a researcher who helped develop many key AI technologies by Openai, has been summoned in the copyright law against the launch of AI, According to a court case TuesdayS

The filing, submitted by a lawyer for the plaintiffs in the US District Court in the North District of California, said Radford was awarded on February 25th.

Radford, who left Openai at the end of last year to continue independent research, was a leading author of the Openai Seminar Research Document for General Transformers (GPTS). GPTS is the basis of Openai’s most popular products, including the AI, Chatgpt chatbot platform.

Radford joined Openai in 2016, a year after the company was founded. It works on several models in the company’s GPT series, as well as a speech recognition model, Whisper and Dall-E, the company’s image generation model.

Copyright’s case, “Re openai Chatgpt Litigation,” was brought by book authors, including Paul Trembling, Sarah Silverman and Michael Cabon, who claim that Openai violated their copyrights using their work to train their AI models. The plaintiffs also claim that Chatgpt has violated its works, citing these works without attribution.

Last year, the court dismissed two plaintiffs’ claims against Openai, but allowed the request for a direct offense to move forward. OPENAI supports the use of copyright protected training data is protected under honestS

Redford is not the only high -profile figure that lawyers for the authors are trying to break up. The plaintiffs’ lawyers also moved to force the postponement of Dario Amadei and Benjamin Mann, and the two former Openai employees who left the company to start anthropic. Amodei and Mann have struggled with movements, claiming they are too burdensome.

Magistrate ruled this week that amodei should sit for hours interrogation about the work that ended for Openai in two cases of copyright, including a A case brought by the authors’ guildS