Authors Sue OpenAI Over Copyright Infringement Concerns
The authors behind the lawsuit are pushing for class-action status, alleging derivative output from AI models.
- A group of authors has sued OpenAI for illegally using their works to train the ChatGPT chatbot.
- This is the latest case against copyright infringement by AI products, including suits against Microsoft, Stability AI, and Meta.
Open AI has been sued by a group of authors, accusing the company of illegally using their writings for training the highly popular ChatGPT chatbot. The authors have alleged that OpenAI has copied their works without authorization while training AI systems to respond to human prompts.
The lawsuit, which has been filed in a San Francisco federal court is the latest in a series of cases against the burgeoning AI industry. According to the suit, AI bots can create summaries of their writings and generate new texts that can mimic their styles with a high degree of accuracy.
Other than OpenAI, Stability AI, Meta, and Microsoft have also been sued for copyright infringement for using unauthorized works while training AI models. All the companies have refuted these claims, stating that they only use copyright material under fair use guidelines.
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This is not the first time OpenAI has faced the threat of a lawsuit either. In July 2023, thousands of authors signed an open letter demanding that AI companies get permission from and pay writers to use their works for training AI models. The FTC also opened an investigation to scrutinize how the company collects data, manages its algorithms, its efforts to control AI hallucination, and more.
Furthermore, in August, the New York Times blocked OpenAI’s web crawler from accessing its content with a change in its terms of service. The news publisher also considered legal action against OpenAI for violating intellectual property rights.
Whether the argument that data scraping practices can be considered as content and software privacy is accepted in court is yet to be seen and can set key precedents for how AI firms across the US operate.
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