The partial dismissal indicates complainants failed to demonstrate that GitHub reproduces human-created code.
The judge overseeing a billion-dollar class action lawsuit against GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft over the alleged unauthorized use of intellectual property (IP) to train the “GitHub Copilot” artificial intelligence (AI) coding software has partially dismissed the claims against the defendants.
This marks a win for big tech and the generative AI industry, which currently faces a number of related lawsuits.
The lawsuit’s complainants had alleged that OpenAI “scraped” GitHub and used human-created coding snippets to train GitHub Copilot without permission, compensation, or credit. According to the lawsuit, Copilot reproduced human-generated code line-for-line and, as such, the complainants were apparently seeking compensation in the amount of $1 billion.
