Gibson Dunn Wins FT Award for Defending OpenAI in First AI-Hallucination Defamation Suit
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Gibson Dunn won an FT Innovative Lawyers award for its precedent-setting win defending client OpenAI in Walters v. OpenAI -- the first lawsuit seeking to hold an AI developer liable for defamation based on hallucinated generative-AI output. Lawyers: Theodore Boutrous Jr., Orin Snyder, and Connor Sullivan.
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