A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles from news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet to train its large language models. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said that the outlets could not show enough harm to support the lawsuit but allowed them to file a new complaint, even though she said she was “skeptical” that they could “allege a cognizable injury.” Raw Story’s owners acquired AlterNet in 2018. Raw Story attorney Matt Topic of Loevy + Loevy said the outlets were “certain we can address the concerns the court identified through an amended complaint.” “We build our AI models using publicly available data, in a manner protected by fair use and related principles, and supported by long-standing and widely accepted legal precedents,” an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement. Raw Story and AlterNet filed the lawsuit in February. They said that thousands of their articles were used without permission to train OpenAI’s popular chatbot ChatGPT and that it reproduces their copyrighted material when prompted. The case is part of a wave of lawsuits against OpenAI and other tech companies by authors, visual artists, music publishers and other copyright owners over the data used to train their generative AI systems. A lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI in December was the first from a media outlet.

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