Nonfiction authors are suing OpenAI and Microsoft (MSFT.O) in federal court in Manhattan, saying that their work was used to train AI models like ChatGPT.
OpenAI and its financial supporter, Microsoft (MSFT.O), faced a lawsuit on Friday in Manhattan federal court from two nonfiction authors alleging that their work was wrongly employed to train artificial intelligence models, including the widely-used chatbot ChatGPT and other AI-based services.
Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, in a proposed class action, accused the companies of violating their copyrights by incorporating portions of their books into the dataset used for training OpenAI’s GPT large language model.
Neither Microsoft nor OpenAI immediately responded to requests for comment regarding the complaint, according to representatives.
This legal action adds to a series of lawsuits initiated by both fiction and nonfiction authors, such as comedian Sarah Silverman and “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin, against tech companies for allegedly utilising their works to train AI systems.
Last week, The New York Times also sued OpenAI and Microsoft over the utilisation of its journalists’ work in training AI applications. Both Basbanes and Gage have backgrounds in journalism. Their attorney, Michael Richter, criticised the companies for using their works to fuel a burgeoning industry worth billions of dollars without offering any compensation, calling the situation “outrageous.”
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