San Altman-run OpenAI and Microsoft have been hit by another class-action lawsuit by book authors, who alleged that the company \u201csimply stole\u201d their copyrighted works to help \u201cbuild a billion-dollar artificial intelligence system\u201d. The lawsuit was filed in the Manhattan federal court late on Friday by non-fiction authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, reports NBC.<\/p>\n
Basbanes and Gage seek to represent a class of writers \u201cwhose copyrighted work has been systematically pilfered by\u201d Microsoft and OpenAI. \u201cThey\u2019re no different than any other thief,\u201d the lawsuit alleged, adding that it will include all people in the US \u201cwho are authors or legal beneficial owners\u201d of copyrights for works that have or are being used by the defendants to \u201ctrain their large language models.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lawsuit seeks damages of up to $150,000 for each work that the defendants infringed, the report mentioned. The lawsuit alleged that OpenAI\u2019s system relies on being trained by ingesting \u201cmassive amounts of written material,\u201d which includes books written by Basbanes and Gage. Microsoft or OpenAI were yet to comment on the new lawsuit.<\/p>\n
In September last year, the Authors\u2019 Guild and 17 well-known authors like Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Jodi Picoult filed a lawsuit in the Southern district of New York against OpenAI. According to the complaint, OpenAI \u201ccopied plaintiffs\u2019 works wholesale, without permission or consideration\u201d and fed the copyrighted materials into large language models.<\/p>\n
In the same month, authors Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, Rachel Louise Snyder and Ayelet Waldman alleged in a lawsuit that OpenAI benefits and profits from the \u201cunauthorised and illegal use\u201d of their copyrighted content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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