OpenAI, Microsoft hit with new author copyright lawsuit over AI training. A lawsuit was filed against OpenAI and Microsoft (MSFT.O), alleging that the companies improperly utilized the work of nonfiction authors to train the artificial intelligence models that are the basis for services such as OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT.
According to novelist and Hollywood Reporter editor Julian Sancton, who leads the proposed class action filed in Manhattan federal court, OpenAI copied tens of thousands of nonfiction books without authorization to train its huge language models to answer text prompts. OpenAI aimed to educate its large language models to respond to human text queries.
The case is one of many that groups of copyright owners, including authors John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Jonathan Franzen, have brought against OpenAI and other technology companies over the alleged exploitation of their work to train artificial intelligence systems. OpenAI is a defendant in this particular complaint. The corporations have refuted these charges.
Sancton’s lawsuit against OpenAI is the first author’s action to name Microsoft as a defendant. The corporation has poured billions of dollars into the artificial intelligence startup kOpenAI and incorporated its technology into its offerings.
Due to the ongoing legal proceedings, a spokesman for OpenAI chose not to comment on the lawsuit that was filed on Tuesday. A request for comment was addressed to Microsoft, but the company representatives did not answer immediately.
“While OpenAI and Microsoft refuse to pay nonfiction authors, their AI platform is worth a fortune,” Sanctions attorney Justin Nelson said. “While OpenAI and Microsoft refuse to pay nonfiction authors,” “the basis of OpenAI is nothing less than the rampant theft of copyrighted works.”
According to the allegations made in Sancton’s lawsuit, OpenAI used nonfiction works like Sancton’s “Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night” to train its GPT big language models.
According to the complaint, Microsoft is also responsible for the infringement of copyright laws because the company was “deeply involved” in training and creating the models.
Sancton submitted a request to the court for an undefined sum of monetary damages and an injunction to stop the claimed violation of their intellectual property.
