Data for training stored overseas, copyright law doesn’t apply: OpenAI

American company OpenAI on Friday denied allegations that its ChatGPT software reproduces verbatim content from news agency ANI, asserting before the Delhi High Court that its model is designed specifically to avoid such reproduction. Sibal argued that using ANI content to train its software did not constitute infringement under the Indian Copyright Act. These submissions were made in response to ANI’s copyright infringement suit against OpenAI, which alleges the company trained its language model using ANI’s content without proper licensing, exploiting its work for commercial gain. Previously, ANI had urged the High Court to rule favourably in its copyright infringement suit, asserting that despite OpenAI’s undertaking, the company was scraping content shared on ANI’s subscribers’ websites to train ChatGPT and generate responses.