Class Action
P.M. v. OpenAI
P.M., et al. v. OpenAI LP, OpenAI Incorporated, OpenAI GP LLC, OpenAI Startup Fund I LP, OpenAI Startup Fund GP I LLC, OpenAI Startup Fund Management LLC, Microsoft Corporation and Does 1–20
Where it stands
Voluntarily dismissed without prejudice by plaintiffs under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(i) on September 15, 2023, less than three months after filing. Counsel was Clarkson Law Firm, P.C. The docket was thereafter referred to private alternative dispute resolution.
Key ruling
No merits ruling. Case terminated by plaintiffs' Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i) notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice, September 15, 2023.
Note on this record
The complaint was widely covered as the first mass web-scraping privacy class action against a generative-AI developer, but it produced no substantive rulings.The record
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- Case number
- 3:23-cv-03199-TLT
- Filed
- 2023-06-28
- Defendants
- OpenAI LP · OpenAI Incorporated · OpenAI GP LLC · OpenAI Startup Fund I LP · OpenAI Startup Fund GP I LLC · OpenAI Startup Fund Management LLC · Microsoft Corporation
- Plaintiffs
- Putative nationwide class of internet users whose personal data was allegedly scraped from the web and used to train OpenAI's models, pleaded through sixteen pseudonymous individual plaintiffs
- Technology at issue
- ChatGPT / GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 (OpenAI); Microsoft integrations
- Relief sought
- Injunctive relief, disgorgement, and damages for alleged mass scraping of personal data used for model training
- Counsel of record
- Clarkson Law Firm, P.C.
Claims pleaded
Sources (3)
- Notice of Voluntary Dismissal, P.M. v. OpenAI LP, No. 3:23-cv-03199-TLT (N.D. Cal.)Filed docket document (via ClassAction.org) · 2023-09-15
- Class Action Complaint, P.M. v. OpenAI LPClarkson Law Firm, P.C. · 2023-06-28
- Year in Review: 2024 Generative AI Litigation TrendsWilmerHale · 2025-03-07
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