Several world-renowned novelists have recently banded together and filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the creator of the hugely successful ChatGPT. The Lawsuit claims that the company used the works of these writers for training ChatGPT without “permission or consideration”.
ChatGPT is an open-source, AI-powered chatbot that can generate texts and conversations based on text prompts. The software uses large language models (LLM) that utilize vast amounts of data such as songs, movies, books, newsletters, blog articles, etc. This has led to accusations regarding copyright and whether the data has been legally acquired. As a result, OpenAI has faced several lawsuits in the past.
And in the latest incident, several of America’s top writers have decided to file a lawsuit against the company. The litigations are being led by the “Authors Guild”, which is America’s largest organization for writers on legal issues and copyright protection.
According to the Washington Post, “Blockbuster writers such as George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan Franzen, and George Saunders have signed on to the lawsuit. This latest lawsuit alleges OpenAI copied the authors’ work “wholesale, without permission or consideration” and used it to train their “large language models.”
The lawsuit is demanding compensation for the damages done to the writers by this “unauthorized use”.