Key ex-OpenAI researcher subpoenaed in AI copyright case

Alec Radford, a researcher who helped develop many of OpenAI’s key AI technologies, has been subpoenaed in a copyright case against the AI startup, according to a court filing Tuesday. The filing, submitted by an attorney for the plaintiffs to the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, indicated that Radford was served a subpoena on February 25. Radford, who left OpenAI late last year to pursue independent research, was the lead author of OpenAI’s seminal research paper on generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs). GPTs underpin OpenAI’s most popular products, including the company’s AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT. Radford joined OpenAI in 2016, a year after the firm’s founding. He worked on several models in the company’s GPT series, as well as a speech recognition model, Whisper, and DALL-E, the company’s image-generating model. The copyright case, “re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation,” was brought by book authors including Paul Tremblay, Sarah Silverman, and ... Read full article.