This is the latest in a series of copyright lawsuits against OpenAI. In July, comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta. Authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad also initiated legal action against OpenAI in June. The company's legal team has argued that the allegations misinterpret the extent of copyright protection and fail to consider legal constraints and exemptions, such as fair use.
Key takeaways:
- A group of writers, including Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, Rachel Louise Snyder, and Ayelet Waldman, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company's AI ChatGPT chatbot was trained using their copyrighted works without authorization.
- The lawsuit claims that OpenAI's actions were deliberate and showed a lack of concern for the rights of the plaintiffs, and that the company was fully aware that the datasets used for training its GPT models included copyrighted content.
- This is not the first case of authors pursuing legal action against OpenAI over its training data. In July, comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey filed a similar lawsuit against both OpenAI and Meta.
- The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction to prevent OpenAI from participating in what they perceive as illegal business practices, and are also seeking compensation for damages resulting from copyright infringements and additional penalties.