In an interim ruling, the Delhi High Court rejected a request by Indian news agency Asian News International (ANI) for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI.
ANI, one of India's largest news agencies, sued OpenAI over its use of copyrighted material for AI training and in ChatGPT's outputs. Judge Amit Bansal denied the requested relief on both claims.
The decision addresses memorization, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and the legal status of AI training. AI copyright law expert Andres Guadamuz calls the ruling an important early win for OpenAI.
ANI's evidence undermined its copyright claims
ANI submitted several ChatGPT outputs to the court that it claimed were substantial copies of its articles. The move backfired because OpenAI showed that the models used, GPT-4 and GPT-4o, were trained on data from April 2022 and April 2024. The articles ANI cited were mostly from August and September 2024, so they couldn't have been part of the training data.
