IT Home reported on December 22 that, according to Reuters, on Wednesday (20th), local time, 11 authors of non-fiction books filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of abusing their books to train the large models behind ChatGPT and other AI software.
These writers include Pulitzer Prize-winning Kaybrd, Taylor Blanche, and Stacy Schiff, who co-authored Oppenheimer's biography "America's Prometheus" (note from the IT house: it was adapted into the film "Oppenheimer" this year). They said in court that companies like OpenAI used their own work to train ChatGPT as copyright infringement.
Photo source Rohit Nath, a lawyer for the Pexels writers, said on Wednesday local time, "The authors of these books deserve fair compensation and treatment for the defendants' unauthorized use of non-fiction books to profit billions of dollars from them." ”
Julian Sancton, an author and editor of The Hollywood Reporter, first filed a proposed class action lawsuit last month: The case is one of a group of copyright owners that includes multiple writers suing OpenAI and other tech companies for misusing their work in AI training.
Microsoft and OpenAI have denied the allegations, though. The lawsuit filed on Monday local time also alleges that OpenAI "scraped" the authors' works from the internet without permission, as well as a host of other copyrighted materials, to teach its GPT model how to respond to human text prompts. Microsoft was "deeply involved" in the training and development of the model and should also be held liable for copyright infringement.