ANI v. OpenAI: Where Will The Court Draw The Line?

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 The past decade marked a revolution in the technology space, wherein artificial intelligence (“AI”) has evolved significantly from a futuristic abstraction to a present-day reality. AI has not only rapidly transformed how information is created, accessed, and consumed but has managed to make itself a part of everyday life. At the same time, its growing presence is testing the limits of existing legal frameworks, particularly in areas such as intellectual property, data use, and liability.

1.2 In this article, we will be delving into the increasingly debated question of whether the use of copyrighted material to train AI systems without authorisation is permissible or constitutes infringement under existing copyright law. This tension stems from the nature of AI itself. On one hand, developers require data at an unprecedented, almost planetary scale to build effective models. On the other hand, much of this data, including news articles, books, music, and other