An anti-piracy group representing major Japanese video game developers like Square Enix, FromSoftware, and Bandai Namco has issued a warning to OpenAI, alleging that OpenAI may have committed copyright infringement. The claim is just one of many that have recently hit AI and LLM companies like OpenAI.
OpenAI is responsible for the creation of AI/LLM services like ChatGPT and the Sora 2 video generator. In recent times, criticism and concern have been voiced regarding the materials these services were trained upon, and whether OpenAI has the legal right to use them. Now, some Japanese game developers are taking notice that the Sora 2 video generator seems to be producing content that bears similarities to their own.
An anti-piracy organization in Japan called the Content Overseas Distribution Association, or CODA, has made a written request to OpenAI to stop using its members' content to train the AI models. CODA states that it has "confirmed" that a "large portion" of the content produced by OpenAI's Sora 2 strongly resembles existing Japanese content, and that CODA considers the act of "replication during the machine learning process" to potentially be copyright infringement. CODA represents a number of Japanese media companies, including game developers...
