Alec Radford, a researcher who helped develop many of Openai’s main technologies, has undergone a copy of copyright against the beginning of him, according to a court on Tuesday.
The registration, presented by a lawyer for plaintiffs in the US District Court in the northern California district, indicated that RAD was a call on February 25th.
Radford, who left Openai at the end of last year to pursue independent research, was the lead author of the OpenAi seminal research work for trained generating transformers (GPTS). GPTs support the most popular OpenAi products, including the company’s chatbot platform, Chatgpt.
Radford joined Openai in 2016, a year after the founding of the firm. He worked on several models in the company’s GPT series, as well as a model of cognition of speech, Whisper and Dall, the company’s image generation model.
Copyright Case, “New Openai Chatgpt Judicial”, was brought by the authors of books including Paul Eranglay, Sarah Silverman and Michael Chabon, who claimed that Openai violated their copyright using their work to train his models. The plaintiffs also argued that the chatgt violated their works by liberally quoting those sans attribute works.
Last year, the court rejected two of the claimants’ claims against Openai, but allowed the request for direct violations to move forward. Openai maintains its use of copyright protected data for training is protected in the right use.
Redford is not the only high profile figure that lawyers for the authors are trying to quarrel. Plaintiffs’ lawyers have also moved to force Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, both former Openai employees who left the company to start anthropic. Amodei and Mann have fought motions, claiming they are too heavy.
An American magistrate judge ruled this week that the amode should sit for hours in questioning the work he did for Openai in two cases of copyright, including a case presented by Guild authors.
