In a proposed class action filed in San Francisco federal court, OpenAI, the popular generative artificial intelligence system behind ChatGPT, is being sued by two U.S. authors for allegedly misusing their works to “train” its AI. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad claim that ChatGPT copied data from thousands of books without permission, thereby infringing their copyrights.
Representatives for OpenAI have not yet responded to the lawsuit, and the authors’ attorney, Matthew Butterick, has declined to comment.
This legal action adds to the growing number of lawsuits related to the use of copyrighted material for training advanced AI systems. Other cases involve source-code owners against entities like OpenAI and Microsoft’s GitHub, as well as visual artists suing Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt.
It is worth noting that the defendants in these cases argue that their systems make fair use of copyrighted work.
ChatGPT, known for its conversational responses to text prompts, achieved unprecedented success earlier this year, reaching 100 million active users in just two months since its launch.
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