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Microsoft, OpenAI Hit With New Lawsuit by Authors Over AI Training

Jan 08, 2024 - insurancejournal.com
OpenAI and Microsoft are facing a lawsuit from nonfiction authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, who allege that their copyrighted works were used without permission to train the AI models behind chatbot ChatGPT and other AI services. The authors' legal representative criticized the tech companies for profiting from a billion-dollar industry without compensating the original content creators.

This lawsuit follows a series of similar legal actions taken by other authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman and "Game of Thrones" author George R.R. Martin, against tech companies for allegedly using their works to train AI programs. The New York Times also recently sued OpenAI and Microsoft for using its journalists' work in AI training without permission.

Key takeaways:

  • OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued by nonfiction authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage for allegedly using their work to train AI models without permission.
  • The authors claim that their copyrights were infringed when their books were included in the data used to train OpenAI’s GPT large language model.
  • This lawsuit follows several others filed by authors against tech companies over the alleged use of their work to train AI programs.
  • The New York Times also sued OpenAI and Microsoft last week over the use of its journalists’ work to train AI applications.
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