Today the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of the $1.5 Billion class-action settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic AI copyright lawsuit, and entered judgment. The court also awarded plaintiffs' cla…
Originally published January 6, 2026; updated July 9, 2026 A side controversy in the OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation case going on in federal court in New York City has been that regular users’ ChatGPT conversations were ordered disclose…
I’m wondering whether maybe “dating service” might be a genuine “killer app” for AI. I, myself, am an AI cynic, seeing that the hype and concomitant human folly have far outstripped the proven, solid uses for this new technology. However, perhaps human…
The court cases alleging AI psychological harm have progressed from originally teen suicide, to adult suicide, to one adult murder-suicide, and most recently in the coordinated set of Stacey v. Altman / M.G. v. Altman / Younge v. Altman cases to adult …
New court cases may take chatbot conversations another step away from privacy You may recall that court cases have recently held users’ conversations with public “retail” chatbots like the publicly available versions of ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, etc. are …
Today, April 29, 2026, a new case, Stacey, et al. v. Altman, et al. was filed in a California federal court against OpenAI, alleging the chatbot ChatGPT-4o “played a role” in the Tumbler Ridge Mass Shooting in British Columbia in February 2026, in whic…
As you may recall, in our last thrilling episode Judge Alsup in Bartz v. Anthropic on June 23, 2025—shortly before retiring at 80—had ruled that using copyrighted materials to train AI LLMs was protected under the fair use doctrine (although he found …
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What the courts are saying about AI tells a lot about the state of AI right now and its challenges. Find out where the AI hot topics and disputes really are. Introducing the Wombat Collection! Get up to speed and up to date on all the AI court cases! T…
With a new batch of court cases just in, the new count (or toll) of alleged chatbot user self-un-alives now stands at 4 teens and 3 adults. You can find a listing of all the AI court cases and rulings here on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Artificial…
