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Top US Authors Sue OpenAI Over Copyright
The alleged accusation came from prominent writer John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan UFranzen, George Saunders, and "Game of Thrones" novelist George RR Martin
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With machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) booming globally, a trade group for US authors has sued OpenAI in Manhattan Federal Court on behalf of prominent writers accusing the company of unlawfully training its popular artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT for their work, according to a media report on Thursday.
The alleged accusation came from prominent writer John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan UFranzen, George Saunders, and "Game of Thrones" novelist George RR Martin, the report said additionally.
The proposed class-action lawsuit against generative AI providers was filed late on Tuesday by the Authors Guild and others; writers, source-code owners and visual artists. Unlike this petition, similar lawsuits are pending against Meta Platforms and Stability AI over the data used to train their AI systems.
Meanwhile, other authors involved in the latest lawsuit include lawyer-novelists David Baldacci, Michael Connelly and Scott Turow.
Commenting on the matter OpenAI and other AI defendants stressed that their use of training data scraped from the internet qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
Furthermore, OpenAI’s spokesperson clarified that the company respects authors' rights and is currently having productive conversations with many creators around the world, including the Authors Guild.
Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger said that writers should have the ability to control their workflow and should know when and where the generative AI can be utilized in order to preserve the literature.
The Authors Guild's lawsuit claimed that the datasets used to train OpenAI's large language model for responding to human prompts included text from the authors' books that were extracted illegally from online 'pirated' book repositories.
The complaint underlined that the ChatGPT has generated accurate summaries of the author's books when prompted, indicating their texts included a database. Citing the growing concerns, it said there is a fearsome situation that underlines the authors may get replaced by systems like ChatGPT generating low-quality ebooks, impersonating authors and displacing human-authored books.