OpenAI offers to pay for ChatGPT customers' copyright lawsuits

Users of the free version of ChatGPT or ChatGPT were not included. OpenAI is not the first to offer such legal protection, though as the creator of the wildly popular ChatGPT, which Altman said has 100 million weekly users, it is a heavyweight player in the industry. Google, Microsoft and Amazon have made similar offers to users of their generative AI software. Getty Images, Shutterstock and Adobe have extended similar financial liability protection for their image-making software. Altman made the announcement at OpenAI's first ever developer conference, meant to attract programmers working with ChatGPT.