ChatGPT, Copilot, DALL-E, SORA & Co - Legal Issues of AI in Corporations

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Project by Prof. Dr. Thomas Wilmer

This website offers German legal perspectives on "text-to-anything", i.e. the use of AI to generate text, images, source code and other content. In addition to AI regulation, this concerns issues of copyright, data protection and data ownership as well as liability for generated content.

Example image: Prompt on DALL-E "Oil Painting of [Einstein et al.] in the Style of Edvard Munch's The Scream"

UK Government publishes new records on how AI is being used in its public sector (18.12.2024)

Dutch DPA publishes policy document on manipulative and exploitative AI systems (18.12.2024)

The European Data Protection Board publishes its opinion on the application of the GDPR in the context of AI models (18.12.2024)

UK Government launches consultation proceedings on legislative reform, proposing new copyright exception for AI training that would require all creators to expressly opt-out (17.12.2024)

European Commission submits report on its compliance with the European Data Protection Supervisor's decision on the use of Microsoft 365 (10.12.2024)

ChatGPT caught lying to developers: New AI model tries to save itself from being replaced and shut down (09.12.2024)

EU Product Liability Directive comes into force, with repercussions for AI system providers (08.12.2024)

A survey conducted by the British Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society on author's feelings towards artificial intelligence reveals that only 7% of its 13,574 members who know that their work has been used to train AI had given permission thereto (04.12.2024)

OpenAI announces partnership with American defence-tech company Anduril for the development of anti-drone military AI models (04.12.2024)

Canadian news companies sue OpenAI in Canada over copyright violations in unauthorised AI training, a first lawsuit of its kind against the company in Canada (29.11.2024)

"Uberisation" model reaches AI training: Uber now offering gig workers as AI labellers for AI companies (27.11.2024)

US senator proposes TRAIN Act, under which copyright holders would be able to subpoena training data used by AI (25.11.2024)

In first, lawsuit by the Intercept against OpenAI on unauthorised AI training under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act advances in US federal court (22.11.2024)

Indian news agency ANI sues Open AI over unauthorised use of its copyright protected content for AI training, the first such lawsuit in India (20.11.2024)

HarperCollins requests its authors to opt-in to AI training licensing agreement with unnamed company (18.11.2024)

European Commission publishes first draft of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Code of Practice (14.11.2024)

The German Collecting Society (GEMA) sues OpenAI in Munich to "clarify AI providers‘ remuneration obligations in Europe" (13.11.2024)

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre publishes brief on upcoming harmonised standards for the AI Act (24.10.2024)

Guidance Table on AI & data protection ("ONKIDA") from the Data Protection Authority of Baden-Württemberg (07.2024)

Citing the DSM Directive, Penguin adds an Article 4(3) TDM exception clause to its books against their use for AI training (Gizmodo, 18.10.2024)

Article by Prof. De. Harald Bartl / vergabetip.de on ‘Artificial intelligence, digitalisation and public procurement law’

Publication on the challenges of contract drafting using artificial intelligence, Wilmer, EUZW 2024, 868

Discussion paper of the Hamburg data protection authority: Large Language Models and personal data

Artificial intelligence is significantly increasing energy consumption (KlimR 2024, 279)

Hamburg District Court renders first judgment on the use of images for AI training purposes in Germany (27/09/2024)

Open letter for uniform AI regulatory clarity in the EU (19.09.2024)

Dutch data protection authority imposes 30.5 million euro fine on Clearview AI (03.09.2024)

Authors file class-action in the U.S. against Anthropic for copyright infringement over AI training (20.08.2024)

Artists secure win in landmark U.S. ruling on the use of copyrighted works as training data by GenAI companies in Stable Diffusion case: “created to facilitate that infringement by design.” (13.08.2024)

AI Act enters into force (01.08.2024)

American Bar Association issues first ethics guidance on the use of AI by lawyers (29.07.2024)

OpenAI launches search engine SearchGPT (26.07.2024)

Copyright infringement by Figma: imitation of the Apple Weather app (24.07.2024)

AI Act is published on the Official Journal of the EU, triggering the countdown for its entry into force (12.07.2024)

GitHub Copilot does not infringe copyright / Judgement of the Northern District Court of California (09.07.2024)

BSI veröffentlicht Whitepaper zur Transparenz von KI-Systemen (BSI vom 01.07.2024)

World's biggest music labels sue over AI copyright (26.06.2024)

Real picture of a flamingo wins competition for AI images (21.06.2024)

Irish data protection regulator to suspend AI training with European data subjects' data by Meta (14.06.2024)

BGH, decision of June 11, 2024 - X ZB 5/22 (BPatG): Only a natural person can be an inventor within the meaning of Section 37 (1) of the German Patent Act (PatG). A machine system consisting of hardware or software cannot be named as inventor even if it has artificial intelligence functions.

Data Protection Commissioner for Lower Saxony takes critical stance on ChatGPT / Activity Report 2023, p. 53ff (06.06.2024)

EDPS issues guidelines on generative AI for EU institutions (03.06.2024)

Sam Altman Admits That OpenAI Doesn't Actually Understand How Its AI Works (03.06.2024)

Final version of the AI Act approved by the Council of the EU with no changes since the previous version "Corrigendum II" (21.05.2024)

Legal dispute building between "Her" star Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI over unauthorised use of her voice for ChatGPT-4o

Open AI unveils GPT-4o, allowing for more realistic spoken interaction with ChatGPT (13.05.2024)

Guidance on AI and data protection by the Datenschutzkonferenz - DSK (6.5.2024)

Another 8 newspapers sue OpenAI in the US for copyright infringement over AI training (01.05.2024) 

Musicians sign petition against the use of AI / Axios article from 02/04/2024

Tennessee passes law to regulate AI use of musicians' voices and likenesses ("Elvis Act") / Bill passed 28 March 2024

French regulators slapped Google with a €250 million fine for unotified use of media content to train their Bard AI model (20.03.2024)

Researchers tested leading AI models for copyright infringement and GPT-4 performed worst (06.03.2024)

Glaze and Nightshade: the "pro-artist" AI tools against unauthorised GenAI training (04.03.2024)

Judgment against Air Canada: Liability must be assumed for errors made by the unauthorized chatbot in customer communication (granting of discounts) (14.02.2024)

SORA – OpenAI's video generator is launched / 15.02.2024

Chatgpt gets a user-related memory with opt-out / 13.2.2024

Can AI write carnival songs? (Kölner Stadtanzeiger)

Checklist for GDPR-compliant AI from the Bavarian data protection supervisory authority

DPD chatbot swears and insults its own company / X post from Ashley Beauchamp from 18.01.2024

Decision ArbG Hamburg 24th Chamber of 16.01.2024 / Ref. 24 BVGa 1/24: Use of ChatGPT in the company not subject to co-determination

OpenAI GPT-Store launched (11.1.2024) 

Hacker erklärt Risiken der ChatGPT-Nutzung / Sicherheitslecks / Chip-Artikel vom 9.1.2024

OpenAI tells British Parliament that it cannot make money without the unpaid use of copyrighted wor(08.01.2024)

News Archive

Study on the reliability of ChatGPT 3 / Approval rate for false claims at 26% / Preprint University of Waterloo, Canada

Volkswagen integriert ChatGPT in neue Modelle / Heise-Artikel vom 8.1.2024

Gastbeitrag von Peter Buxmann zum Durchbruch der KI / FAZ vom 7.1.2024

Klagschrift New York Times vs. OpenAI vom 27.12.2023

Kooperation von Axel Springer und OpenAI / PM vom 13.12.2023

Artificial Intelligence Act: deal on comprehensive rules for trustworthy AI (09.12.2023)

Erste komplett von KI geschriebene Verordnung in Brasilien verabschiedet / Heise-Artikel vom 4.12.2023

Regulierung von KI: DSK fordert klare Verantwortlichkeit für Hersteller und Betreiber (29.11.2023)

Data Act: Council adopts new law on fair access to and use of data / EU Council Press release / 27.11.2023

Italian data protection supervisory authority on safeguards against AI web scraping (22/11/2023)

Joint ATHENE research paper on the lack of legal certainty about big data and AI (21.11.2023)​

AI Act: KI-Gesetz der EU droht zu kippen / heise-Artikel vom 17.11.2023

Brazil-Germany Seminar on Data Protection held at the Office of the Prosecutor of the State of Rio de Janeiro with h_da speakers on 13.11.2023

ResearchGPT gestartet: Zugriff auf wissenschaftliche Datenbank mit mehr als 200 Millionen Artikeln direkt auf der ChatGPT-Oberfläche. (13.11.2023)

Hamburger Datenschutzaufsicht: Checkliste zum Einsatz LLM-basierter Chatbots (13.11.2023)

OpenAI introduces "Copyright Shield" to legally defend users against infringement liability / Forbes 7.11.2023

Andersen v. Stability AI / Weitgehende Zurückweisung der Klage / 30.10.2023

Hessischer Datenschutzbeauftragter fordert erneut Antworten zu ChatGPT / HBDI-PM vom 24.10.2023

Deepfakes: KI gegen KI / Heise-Artikel vom 24.10.2023

Diabetes-Analyse durch KI aufgrund von Stimmaufzeichnungen / Veröffentlichung der Mayo-Klinik vom 17.10.2023

ChatGPT: Namhafte Schriftsteller schließen sich Klage gegen OpenAI und Co. an / heise-Artikel vom 21.09.2023

Court of appeal judge praises ‘jolly useful’ ChatGPT after asking it for legal summary / The Guardian-Artikel vom 15.09.2023

New York Times prüft "potenziell tödliche" Klage gegen OpenAI / Golem-Artikel vom 28.08.2023

„US Supreme Court rejects computer scientist's lawsuit over AI-generated inventions“ / Reuters-Mitteilung vom 24.08.2023

Einsatz von GPT 3.5 bei dm: Start von dmGPT als unternehmenseigener KI-Chatbot / DM-Pressemitteilung vom 14.08.2023

Datenstrategie der Bundesregierung: PDF-Dokument vom 30.08.2023

OpenAI führt ChatGPT Enterprise mit neuen Datensicherheits- und Datenschutzzusagen ein (Mitteilung von OpenAI vom 28.08.2023)

KI-Fehler bei Gesichtserkennung: Falsche Person verhaftet / NZZ-Artikel vom 07.08.2023

Übersichtsseite des DPMA: Künstliche Intelligenz und Schutzrechte

Chat-GPT wird immer dümmer. Was ist da los? / NZZ-Artikel vom 31.07.2023

OpenAI zieht KI-Detektor wegen schlechter Trefferquote zurück / Heise-Artikel vom 26.07.2023

OpenAI, Google und andere verpflichten sich in den USA zur Wasserzeichenmarkierung von KI-Ergebnissen / Reuters-Nachricht vom 21.07.2023

United States Copyright Office: Entscheidung zur Aberkennung des Copyrights für KI-Bilder (Zarya of the Dawn (Registration # VAu001480196)), (15.07.2023)

FTC-Dokument (20 Seiten) zur Auskunftsanforderung an OpenAI in Sachen Datenschutz und Falschinformationen (13.07.2023)

ChatGPT im Einsatz für Produktgestaltung und Markenstrategie / Ritter Sport: ChatGPT gibt den Geschmack vor / W&V-Artikel vom 13.06.2023 

KI-Update / ChatGPT-Texte erkennen / Heise-Artikel vom 16.06.2023

Adobe indemnity clause designed to ease enterprise fears about AI-generated art / techcrunch-Artikel vom 26.06.2023

ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces a lawsuit over how it used people’s data / Washington-Post-Artikel vom 28.06.2023

Kooperation unseres Projekts / Abkommen Femerpj Rio de Janeiro mit unserem Partnerinstitut IDTEC (Prof. Gilberto Martins de Almeida) über Forschung und Lehre im Bereich Rechtsfragen von KI, Biometrie, Quantenkryptographie (29.09.2023)

Elon Musk begründet Twitter-Limitierung mit Einschränkung von Screen Scraping durch fremde KI / Reuters-Meldung vom 02.07.2023

Künstliche Intelligenz im Studium Eine quantitative Befragung von Studierenden zur Nutzung von ChatGPT & Co.

BITKOM Pressemitteilung: Jedes sechste Unternehmen plant KI-Textgenerierungseinsatz



Sammelklage auf Schadensersatz von US-Künstlern gegen Bildgeneratoren-KI / Klagschrift

Einigung auf das Datengesetz zwischen EU-Parlament und EU-Staaten (28.06.2023)

Entwurf der KI-Verordnung (KI-VO-E) in der Fassung des EU Parlaments vom 14.06.2023

Presseerklärung des EU-Parlaments vom 14.06.2023 zur Abstimmung über die KI-Verordnung

EU-Einführung des Google Chatbots "Bard" wegen Bedenken der irischen Aufsicht DPC verschoben / Politico-Artikel vom 13.06.2023

ChatGPT-Piraterie: Gestohlene API-Schlüssel / Golem.de-Artikel vom 08.06.2023

ChatGPT-Gutachten des Büros für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag (TAB) vom 21.04.2023 (Autor: Steffen Albrecht)

Italienische Datenschutzaufsicht schränkt ChatGPT-Nutzung ein

EU richtet Taskforce zu ChatGPT ein

Fake-Urteile aus ChatGPT / Spiegel-Bericht vom 29.05.2023

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Prof. Dr. Thomas Wilmer

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Short profile

The 10 AI commandments for legally compliant handling of ChatGPT, Copilot, DALL-E & Co

FAQ on legal issues of ChatGPT Text Generation

FAQ on legal issues of DALL-E Image Generation

FAQ on Legal Issues of SORA Video Generation

FAQ on Legal Issues of Microsoft Copilot

Process of AI introduction / use of Copilot&Co in the company

Teaching and Research on AI