Dallas principal Avery Williams was recently featured in TechCrunch's article, "It Sure Looks Like OpenAI Trained Sora on Game Content — And Legal Experts Say That Could Be a Problem." The article looks at the launch of Sora, OpenAI's new video-making AI platform, and raises questions about whether it might have been trained using copyrighted video game material. Avery says “Training an AI platform on the voices, movements, characters, songs, dialogue, and artwork in a video game constitutes copyright infringement, just as it would if these elements were used in other contexts.”

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