2024-01-05 21:37:00
OpenAI and its backer Microsoft were sued Friday in Manhattan federal court by two nonfiction authors who say the companies misused their work to train the artificial intelligence models behind the popular ChatGPT chatbot and other AI-powered services.
Writers Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage told the court in a proposed class-action lawsuit that the companies violated their copyrights by including several of their books in the data used to train OpenAI’s GPT extended language model .
Representatives for Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the complaint.
The suit follows several others filed by fiction and nonfiction authors, from comedian Sarah Silverman to “Game of Thrones” author George RR Martin, against tech companies for alleged use of their works in order to train artificial intelligence programs.
Last week, The New York Times also sued OpenAI and Microsoft over the use of its journalists’ work to train AI applications.
Both Basbanes and Gage are former journalists. Their lawyer, Michael Richter, said it was “outrageous” that the companies could use their work to “fuel a new billion-dollar-plus industry without any compensation.”
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