American writers George RR Martin and John Grisham sued ChatGPT owner OpenAI claiming that their copyright was infringed in order to “train” the system. Martin is best known for his fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into the HBO show Game of Thrones.
ChatGPT and other writing models (LLMs) “learn” by analyzing a huge amount of data that often comes from the Internet. The lawsuit alleges that the authors’ books were used without their permission to make it smarter ChatGPT. The company OpenAI said it respected the rights of creators and believed they “should benefit from AI technology.” Other well-known authors named in the complaint include Jonathan Franzen, Jodi Picoult and George Saunders.
The case has been filed in federal court in Manhattan, New York by the Writers Guild, a US trade group working on behalf of named authors.
The plaintiffs accuse OpenAI of engaging in “systematic theft on a massive scale». A similar action followed which he brought comedian Sarah Silverman; in July, as well as an open letter signed by the authors Margaret Atwood and Philip Pullman the same month, asking AI companies to compensate them for using their work.
An OpenAI spokesperson said: “We are having productive conversations with many creators around the world, including Writers’ Union, and we work collaboratively to understand and discuss their concerns about AI. We are optimistic that we will continue to find mutually beneficial ways to work together,” according to the BBC.
AI is ‘displacing human-generated content’
The lawsuit alleges that the writing models were fed data from copyrighted books without the authors’ permission, while addressing the media industry’s broader concern — that this kind of technology is “displacing” content created by people.
Patrick Goold, from City University Law School, told BBC News that while he could understand the authors behind the lawsuit, he thought it was unlikely to succeed, saying they would first have to prove that ChatGPT had copied their work . “They’re actually not really worried about copyright, what they’re worried about is that artificial intelligence is a job killer,” he said, likening the concerns to those of screenwriters in Hollywood. “What we need to do is go to Parliament and Congress and talk about how artificial intelligence is going to displace the creative arts and what we need to do about it in the future,” he added.
The case is the latest in a long line of complaints filed against AI developers, and follows lawsuits by digital artists against text-on-image producers
It comes after digital artists sued Stability AI and Midjourney in January, claiming they only work by training artwork that are protected by copyright. OpenAI is also facing a lawsuit, along with Microsoft and the development site GitHub, from a group of computer experts who claim their code was used without their permission to train an AI called Copilot. None of these lawsuits have yet gone to trial.
Source: News Beast
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