The lawsuit involves prominent authors such as George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan Franzen, and George Saunders. Led by the Authors Guild, an advocacy group for writers, the lawsuit contributes to the rising number of copyright infringement cases against OpenAI and other AI companies. Comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay have also filed separate lawsuits.
According to the lawsuit, OpenAI allegedly copied the authors’ work without permission or compensation and utilized it to train its “large language models” that power tools like ChatGPT. The lawsuit denounces this action as “systematic theft on a mass scale.”
The lawsuit further fuels the ongoing debate surrounding the training of AI tools and the obligations of companies towards the original creators of the training data. Large language models are typically trained on enormous amounts of text from sources like news articles, Wikipedia, and social media comments. While OpenAI and other companies do not disclose specific data sources, critics suspect that copyrighted books available online illegally may also be included.
The authors seek damages for the loss of licensing opportunities and an injunction against OpenAI to prohibit the continued use of their work in training data. OpenAI has chosen not to comment on the pending litigation.
Tech companies argue that their use of publicly available data for AI training falls under the concept of fair use in copyright law. Fair use allows for the transformative use of others’ work, provided the final output differs significantly. Content owners argue that AI-generated content often closely resembles the original, indicating copyright infringement.
Hollywood writers and actors have also voiced concerns about AI replacing human creativity, leading to demands for assurances that AI will not supplant their work in TV and film. News organizations have taken measures to prevent AI companies from scraping their websites. On the other hand, some publishers have entered agreements to directly sell content to tech companies. The Associated Press has licensed its archive to OpenAI, and Universal Music Group has collaborated with YouTube to explore the use of AI in music creation.
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