First Indian AI case begins

Up until now most AI litigation has been in the US. However Indian news agency Asian News International, has sued OpenAI in the Delhi High court.

The claim states that Open AI has used Asian News International's news content which is protected by copyright. In addition the storage of its content and training of its LLM amounts to infringement. They are claiming damages totaling 20 million Rupees (USD240,000)

In the first hearing OpenAI appeared to dispute jurisdiction since all its servers are outside India, and no LLM training took place in India. They also claimed that the Plaintiff is on its blocked list and it does not use their content.

This is thought to be the first case in Asia against Open AI or any AI to test the law on training LLMs. It is likely to take a year. As India is a common law country other similar legal systems will be watching.