Partners Justin Nelson and Rohit Nath and Associate Craig Smsyer have penned an article for the Litigation Section of the Texas State Bar’s periodical, The Advocate.
In their article called “Poisoning the WeLL(M): Pirated Data, Large Language Models, and Copyright,” the three lawyers, who currently serve as lead counsel for putative classes of authors in copyright infringement lawsuits against OpenAI and its major competitor Anthropic, delve into issues regarding illegal enclaves of pirated literature, music, and art that still persist across the internet, how they are now being used to train the world’s most sophisticated AI programs, and if that should be considered copyright infringement.
To learn about the lawyers’ thoughts on the matter and the conclusion they arrive at, click here to read the full article from The Advocate’s Winter 2024 Edition.
