Tremblay
Tremblay v. OpenAI, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EUREKA DIVISION 7 PAUL TREMBLAY, et al., Case No. 23-cv-03223-AMO (RMI)
Plaintiffs,
ORDER RE: FOURTH DISCOVERY
v. DISPUTE
OPENAI, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 153 Defendants.
13 Now pending before the court is a jointly-filed letter brief setting forth a discovery dispute through which Defendants seek to compel certain discovery over which Plaintiffs have asserted a work product privilege. See Ltr. Br. (dkt. 153) at 1-5. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 78(b) and Civil Local Rule 7-1(b), the court finds the matter suitable for disposition without oral argument. For the reasons stated below, Defendants’ request to compel the material in question is granted. By way of background, Plaintiffs (a group of authors) allege that Defendants’ ChatGPT software relies on a large language model by which it is trained through “copying massive amounts of text and extracting expressive…