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    9,000 authors rebuke AI companies, saying they exploited books as 'food' for chatbots

    by Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times Jul 20, 2023 3 minutes
    Celeste Ng attends Hulu's "Little Fires Everywhere" press brunch at Ross House on Feb. 19, 2020, in Los Angeles.

    More than 9,000 authors are calling out the tech companies behind generative AI in an open letter that states there is an inherent injustice in exploiting copyright-protected works to train chatbots without consent, credit or compensation.

    If users prompt GPT-4 to summarize works by Roxane Gay or Margaret Atwood, it can do so in detail, chapter by chapter. If users want ChatGPT to write a story in the style of an acclaimed author such as Maya Angelou,

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