Authors file new lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI over AI training
January 5, 2024 – 4:44 PM EST
(Reuters) – OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft (MSFT.O) were hit with a lawsuit on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who claim that their work was improperly used to train the artificial-intelligence models behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT and other AI-based services.
Writers Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage have filed a proposed class action, alleging that the companies violated their copyrights by using several of their books as part of the data used to train OpenAI’s GPT large language model.
Representatives for Microsoft and OpenAI have not yet responded to requests for comment on the complaint.
This lawsuit adds to a series of legal actions brought by both fiction and nonfiction writers, including comedian Sarah Silverman and “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin, against tech companies for the alleged unauthorized use of their work in training AI programs.
Last week, The New York Times also filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for using its journalists’ work to train AI applications.
Basbanes and Gage, both former journalists, expressed their outrage through their lawyer, Michael Richter, stating that it is unacceptable for the companies to utilize their works to fuel a billion-dollar-plus industry without compensating them.
Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington Editing by David Bario Editing by Matthew Lewis
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Authors Sue OpenAI and Microsoft for Copyright Infringement
January 5, 2024 – 4:44 PM EST (Reuters) – OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft (MSFT.O) were hit with a lawsuit on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who claim that their work was improperly used to train the artificial-intelligence models behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT and other AI-based services.
Writers Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage have filed a proposed class action, alleging that the companies violated their copyrights by using several of their books as part of the data used to train OpenAI’s GPT large language model.
Representatives for Microsoft and OpenAI have not yet responded to requests for comment on the complaint.
This lawsuit adds to a series of legal actions brought by both fiction and nonfiction writers, including comedian Sarah Silverman and “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin, against tech companies for the alleged unauthorized use of their work in training AI programs.
Last week, The New York Times also filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for using its journalists’ work to train AI applications.
Basbanes and Gage, both former journalists, expressed their outrage through their lawyer, Michael Richter, stating that it is unacceptable for the companies to utilize their works to fuel a billion-dollar-plus industry without compensating them.
Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington Editing by David Bario Editing by Matthew Lewis
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