OpenAI prepares to fight for its life as legal troubles mount
The company has hired more than two dozen in-house lawyers and adopted a new Washington playbook
By Cat Zakrzewski and Nitasha Tiku and Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post
As OpenAI’s top executives huddled with world leaders this past summer — touting the benefits of its ChatGPT with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron — comedian Sarah Silverman was preparing to take the company to court.
Silverman’s suit, which alleged the company stole her work when it used her memoir, “The Bedwetter,” to train its artificial intelligence products, was at the bleeding edge of a legal blitz that has exploded in recent months.
