Jacob Martin

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Jacob Martin

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Jacob Martin is a third-year law student at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he is also pursuing a Master’s in Real Estate through a dual degree program with the University of Denver Daniels College of Business. He is currently working for a real estate investment firm in Denver. Before embarking on his law school journey, Jacob gained experience working with Zillow and Charles Schwab.

Jacob earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from Seattle Pacific University. Outside of his academic and professional pursuits, he enjoys golfing, exploring new restaurants, and spending quality time with friends and family.

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AI on Trial: The Pioneering Legal Battle Over Machine Learning and Copyrights

Several prominent news organizations, including The New York Times, The Intercept, Raw Story, and Alternet, have filed lawsuits against OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research organization. (Yiwen Lu, The New York Times)​​. The lawsuits allege that OpenAI used their journalists’ copyrighted content to train its artificial intelligence (“AI”) system, ChatGPT, without proper authorization or accurate citation. Id. They allege that OpenAI unlawfully used their copyrighted content to train its AI system, ChatGPT, violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), which prohibits the “removal of information like author and title from protected works” thereby infringing upon their copyrights. Id.(Cade Metz, et al. & Katie Robertson, The New York Times). As a result of the training, ChatGPT can potentially produce similar content to the copyrighted material which would be grounds for a DMCA violation. Id. This article describes how OpenAI has responded to these lawsuits, how OpenAI has responded to news organizations’ claims, other stakeholders suing AI platforms, and possible outcomes of the lawsuits.