Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, and Square Enix demand OpenAI to stop using its content to train AI

Overseas Content Distribution Association (CODA), an anti-piracy organization that represents Japanese intellectual property rights holders such as Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco, A letter was issued Last week, OpenAI asked to stop using its members’ content to train Sora 2, it reported robot. “CODA considers that the act of copying during the machine learning process may constitute copyright infringement,” the letter states, since the resulting AI model continued to post content in copyrighted characters.

Sora 2 generated a torrent of content containing Japanese intellectual property after its release on September 30, prompting the Japanese government to… Officially ask OpenAI to stop Imitation of Japanese artwork. This is not the first time that an OpenAI application has been clearly withdrawn from Japanese media. The most notable thing that happened with the launch of GPT-4o last March was the spread of… “Ghibli style” the pictures. Even Sam Altman’s profile photo on the X is currently a photo in a style reminiscent of Studio Ghibli.

Altman announced last month that OpenAI would be one too Change Sora’s opt-out policy to intellectual property rights holders, but CODA claims that using the opt-out policy initially may have violated Japanese copyright law, noting that “under the Japanese copyright system, prior permission is generally required to use copyrighted works, and there is no system that allows one to avoid liability for infringement through subsequent objections.”

CODA is now requesting on behalf of its members that OpenAI respond truthfully to its members’ copyright claims and stop using their content for machine learning without their permission, which appears to include not only Sora’s output, but also the use of Japanese IP as training data.