OpenAI and other AI companies have defended their actions, arguing that their use of internet-scraped training data falls under fair use as defined by U.S. copyright law. This lawsuit adds to the growing number of legal actions against generative AI providers over the use of data to train their AI systems. In July, thousands of authors signed an open letter demanding AI firms get permission and pay writers for the use of their words to train AI models.
Key takeaways:
- A group of prominent authors, including John Grisham and George R.R. Martin, have filed a lawsuit against AI company OpenAI, accusing it of copyright infringement.
- The authors allege that OpenAI trained its AI-based chatbot, ChatGPT, on their copyrighted works, possibly sourced from illegal online book repositories.
- The lawsuit raises concerns about the potential impact of AI systems on the future of literature, including the generation of low-quality eBooks and the displacement of human-authored books.
- OpenAI and other AI defendants argue that their use of training data scraped from the internet falls under fair use as defined by U.S. copyright law.