No copyright in news that is freely available, OpenAI tells Delhi HC

OPENAI SAID USING ANI CONTENT FOR SEARCH IS NOT INFRINGEMENT AS IT DOES NOT 'REPRODUCE' THE NEWS AGENCY'S MATERIAL

- Shruti Kakkar

NEW DELHI: AI company OpenAI on Tuesday pushed back against news agency ANI's allegations that the company was violating its undertaking regarding the use of the latter's content to train its ChatGPT software, asserting that the same was being used for search, which was different from training.

In November, OpenAI submitted before the Delhi high court that it had blocklisted ANI's domain in October, to prevent the use of new agency's content by its AI chatbot.

OpenAI, represented by senior advocate Amit Sibal, submitted before a bench of Justice Amit Bansal that using ANI's content for search did not amount to infringement, since the results did not "reproduce" ANI's material.