OpenAI Launches Copyright Shield to Cover Client Legal Fees
OpenAI introduces a "Copyright Shield" that promises to pay legal fees for enterprise and API users facing copyright lawsuits. The company makes this announcement alongside new products like a ChatGPT app store and the GPT-4 Turbo model.
OpenAI introduces a new "Copyright Shield" program that promises to cover the legal fees of customers who face copyright infringement lawsuits. CEO Sam Altman unveils this policy at the company's first developer conference in San Francisco, making it clear that OpenAI intends to defend its enterprise and API users rather than removing copyrighted content from its training data.
This legal protection applies only to users of ChatGPT Enterprise and the API, leaving users of the free version and ChatGPT Plus without coverage. The announcement comes at a time when OpenAI faces multiple copyright lawsuits of its own, as generative AI tools rely heavily on large collections of copyrighted text, books, and articles for training.
Alongside the copyright protection, Altman reveals a new ChatGPT app store set to launch later this month and previews the GPT-4 Turbo model. The updated model handles significantly longer inputs and boasts an expanded knowledge base up to April 2023, though the company keeps the exact commercial release date under wraps.