Defamation Plaintiff vs. OpenAI to File Amended Complaint by Friday
Mark Walters, nationally syndicated talk show host of Armed American Radio, plans to file an amended defamation complaint against OpenAI by Friday, said the parties’ joint preliminary report and discovery plan Monday (docket 1:23-cv-03122) in U.S. District Court for Northern…
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Georgia in Atlanta. Walters alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT service defamed him to journalist Fred Riehl. OpenAI’s July 21 motion to dismiss Walters’ complaint said the lawsuit "fails to establish the basic elements of a defamation claim" (see 2307240031). OpenAI is evaluating whether Riehl “may be a necessary party to this action who has not been joined,” said Monday’s report. Key to OpenAI’s defense is its claim that Riehl ignored ChatGPT’s terms of use when he shared the defamatory “output” with Walters. One of the issues to be tried in the case is whether Riehl “was an intervening or superseding cause of any purported harm” to Walters, said Monday’s report.