This is not the first time OpenAI has faced such allegations. In July, comedienne and author Sarah Silverman, along with two other authors, sued the company for copyright infringement. Furthermore, over 8,500 authors signed an open letter to tech companies, asking them to stop using their books for training AI tools without their permission.
Key takeaways:
- A group of award-winning authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, have sued OpenAI for allegedly misusing their work to train the AI chatbot, ChatGPT.
- The authors claim that their work was included in ChatGPT's training dataset without their permission and that the AI can generate text that copies their style.
- This is not the first time OpenAI has faced such a lawsuit. In July, comedienne and author Sarah Silverman, along with two other authors, also sued the company for copyright infringement.
- More than 8,500 authors have signed an open letter to tech companies asking them to stop using their books for training AI tools, arguing that generative AI mimics their language, stories, style and ideas without their permission.