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OpenAI prepares to fight for its life as legal troubles mount

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Next year: “‘Beleaguered’ OpenAI prepares for Microsoft acquisition” (who will enjoy a depressed purchase price after so much negative press)

Already did an acquihire dry run. If it comes to this, it'll be some paperwork while OpenAI gets absorbed into MS and copyright holders fight a $3.15T corporation. gl;hf with that.

All Copyright Holders For Every Medium vs. Mega-est of MegaCorps? Forget Wrestlemania, I'd pay-per-view that match.

Tbf 3.15T in market cap, not buying power. A few heavyweight copyright holders like Sony, fox, wb, and Disney could put up a good fight.

the entire US Justice Department fought Microsoft to basically a draw. Good luck copyright holders, i'm rooting for ya.

Not sure Microsoft can get more favorable leadership elected at all of the copyright holders the way it managed to do with the US government at just the right time for the antitrust case.

Microsoft lobbying and running pols aligned with copyright reform to protect their GenAI interests was not on my 2020s bingo card, but would be welcome if that's what it takes.

Do you figure the lawyers at the Justice Department get bonuses if they win big cases? If not, the incentives in play make this a different circumstance entirely.

Generally, the depth of an entity’s pockets attracts civil action instead of discouraging it.

Very much a case of asking for forgiveness rather than permission. I sincerely hope creators succeed and OpenAI fails.

Small detail which helps me calibrate on the quality of the article (from MSN).

They list a 300k salary for a lawyer after saying open AI is hiring top legal minds.

I'm sure they are hiring top legal experts, but $300k is very little money compared to the cost of a good corporate lawyer.

What range should it be?

In house counsel is usually not remotely as well compensated as external counsel that bills hours for a team.

That said, possible this isn't counting equity?

Typically these companies pay in equity on top of the cash salary

The article states:

"The company has posted a job for an antitrust lawyer — with a salary of up to $300,000"

OpenAI has an actual "senior AI product counsel" role posted with a $250-300k salary range. https://openai.com/careers/search?c=legal leading to https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/12b1092b-d814-4991-b23c-9974...

Also for OpenAI, wouldn't this be base salary? And they would pay equity on top of that?

They will also offer equity which will be much more than that.

It's very likely that this person will be responsible for, among other things, farming a great deal of work out to other law firms that will bill quite a lot more than $300k/year.

In-house counsel don't replace big law firms? I believe their role is to guide a company legally as much as possible, and to interface with Big Law when shit hits the fan.

I'm a bit shocked the OpenAI didn't already have a large in-house legal team preemptively preparing a defense.

Did they not think they were going to get sued over training on copyrighted works?

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