Judge Threatens to Remand OpenAI Defamation Case for Lack of Diversity Jurisdiction

Defendant OpenAI still hasn’t shown that U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta has diversity jurisdiction because it hasn’t established the citizenship of OpenAI Holdings and Aestas Managemen, both of which are entities in OpenAI’s membership structure, said U.S. District Judge Michael Brown in a text-only order Friday (docket 1:23-cv-03122). Mark Walters, a nationally syndicated talk show host, alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT service defamed him to a reporter (see 2307240031). OpenAI “must affirmatively identify by name each member of an LLC and then allege whatever specific facts are necessary to establish the citizenship of that member,” said Brown’s order. He’s giving OpenAI “one last chance to do so,” it said. OpenAI must file, no later than Oct. 6, a single consolidated document showing the court has subject matter jurisdiction over this action, it said. “Failure to do so will result in remand” to the Gwinnett County Superior Court where the case originated before OpenAI removed it to Atlanta federal court July 14, said the order.