17 authors sue OpenAI for 'systematic mass-scale copyright infringement'
John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, and George R.R. Martin, sued OpenAI for using their copyright without permission to train its large language models. Organised by the Authors Guild, the suit accused OpenAI of 'systematic theft on a mass scale,' and alleged 'flagrant and harmful infringements of plaintiffs’ registered copyrights'. It also labelled ChatGPT a 'massive commercial enterprise' that is reliant upon 'systematic theft on a mass scale.' It also claimed that OpenAI's LLMs 'endanger fiction writers’ ability to make a living, in that the LLMs allow anyone to generate - automatically and freely (or very cheaply) - texts that they would otherwise pay writers to create'. The suit is the latest of many accusing the developers of using copyrighted content to train generative AI systems. System 🤖 ChatGPT Books3 Operator: Victor LaValle, John Grisham, Scott Turow, David Baldacci, Authors Guild, Rachel Vail, George Saunders, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan Franzen, Mary Bly, Christina Baker Kline, George R.R. Martin, Douglas Preston, Roxana Robinson, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, Maya Shanbhag Lang, Sylvia Day Developer: OpenAI Country: U SA Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts Purpose: Generate text Technology: Chatbot; NLP/text analysis; Neural network; Deep learning; Machine learning; Reinforcement learning Issue: Copyright; Employment Legal, regulatory 👩🏼⚖️ Authors Guild v OpenAI
- Date it happened
- 2023-09-01
- Organisation involved
- Victor LaValle, John Grisham, Scott Turow, David Baldacci, Authors Guild, Rachel Vail, George Saunders, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan Franzen, Mary Bly, Christina Baker Kline, George R.R. Martin, Douglas Preston, Roxana Robinson, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, Maya Shanbhag Lang, Sylvia Day
- Product, system or model
- ChatGPT
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