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A California district court has partially dismissed a copyright lawsuit against GitHub Copilot and OpenAI's Codex, rejecting claims that the AI tools infringe copyrights by reproducing source code without adhering to license terms. The court found that plaintiffs failed to prove Copilot makes identical copies of protected works, which is necessary for Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims. It dismissed arguments about Copilot's ability to accurately reproduce copyrighted code. The decision could set a precedent for AI systems trained on copyrighted data. While dismissing claims for unjust enrichment and unfair competition, the court allowed a claim for breach of open-source license agreements to proceed.

ETS’s researchers had asked GPT-4o to score the essays cold, without showing the chatbot any graded examples to calibrate its scores. It’s possible that a few sample essays or small tweaks to the grading instructions, or prompts, given to ChatGPT could reduce or eliminate the bias against Asian Americans. Perhaps the robot would be fairer to Asian Americans if it were explicitly prompted to “give out more perfect 6s.”