George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and other authors filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using their books to train generative artificial intelligence ChatGPT.
In documents filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, the authors alleged that the technology company engaged in “systematic theft on a massive scale” of their intellectual properties.
According to the AP, the artists’ attorneys alleged “egregious and harmful infringements of plaintiffs’ registered copyrights” and called the ChatGPT program a “massive commercial enterprise.”
As such the lawsuit was organized by the Authors Guild and includes writers Victor LaValle, John Grisham, Scott Turow, David Baldacci, Authors Guild, Rachel Vail, George Saunders, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan Franzen, Mary Bly, Christina Baker Kline, George RR Martin, Douglas Preston, Roxana Robinson, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, Maya Shanbhag Lang and Sylvia Day.
George R.R. Martin and ChatGPT
The lawsuit cites specific ChatGPT searches for each author. For example, in the case of George RR Martin, it is alleged that the program generated “an infringing, unauthorized and detailed scheme for a prequel” to “Game of Thrones” which was titled “A Dawn of Direwolves”.
An OpenAI spokesperson told The Verge that the company respects “the rights of writers and authors, and believes they should benefit from artificial intelligence technology.”
This is not the first time OpenAI has faced copyright lawsuits, not even in a month. In early September 2023, authors such as Michael Chabon and David Henry Hwang filed a complaint against ChatGPT’s parent company in San Francisco for “clear intellectual property infringement.”
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