Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Attempts to Dodge Deposition in OpenAI Copyright Lawsuit

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Attempts to Dodge Deposition in OpenAI Copyright Lawsuit

Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is embroiled in a legal battle with the Authors Guild, a group representing prominent writers like John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Sylvia Day. New court filings reveal Amodei is attempting to avoid a deposition in a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, raising questions about the inner workings of the AI industry and the contentious issue of training AI models on copyrighted material. The Core of the Dispute: Copyright Infringement in the Age of AI The lawsuit, initially filed in September 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that OpenAI trained its popular ChatGPT model on copyrighted works without proper authorization. The Authors Guild claims this constitutes copyright infringement and is seeking redress for its members. Central to their case is the knowledge possessed by Amodei and his Anthropic co-founder, Benjamin Mann, both of whom are former OpenAI employees. Inside Knowledge: Th…