Authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully ‘ingesting’ their books
Jul 05, 2023
3 minutes
Two authors have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, claiming that the organisation breached copyright law by “training” its model on novels without the permission of authors.
Mona Awad, whose books include Bunny and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, and Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World, filed the class action complaint to a San Francisco federal court last week.
ChatGPT allows users to and responds with text that resembles human language patterns. The model underlying ChatGPT is trained with data that is publicly available on the internet.
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