A lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI and its financial supporter Microsoft in Manhattan federal court, alleging that the companies have misused the works of nonfiction authors to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, including the popular chatbot ChatGPT. The authors, Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, claim that their copyrights were infringed upon when several of their books were included as part of the data used to train OpenAI’s GPT language model.
This lawsuit adds to a growing number of legal actions taken by both fiction and nonfiction writers against tech companies regarding the alleged use of their work to train AI programs. Comedian Sarah Silverman and “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin are among the authors who have previously filed similar lawsuits. The New York Times also filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft recently, specifically regarding the use of their journalists’ work in training AI applications.
Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, both former journalists themselves, express their outrage at the companies’ actions. Their lawyer, Michael Richter, criticizes the fact that these works are being used to power a billion-dollar-plus industry without providing any compensation to the authors. The lawsuit, which is a proposed class action, seeks appropriate damages and compensation for the alleged copyright infringement.
It remains to be seen how OpenAI and Microsoft will respond to the lawsuit. Neither company has provided an immediate comment regarding the complaint. As this legal battle unfolds, it brings into focus the contentious issue of intellectual property rights in the realm of AI development and the responsibility of tech companies in protecting the works of authors and creators.
The source of the article is from the blog macholevante.com