SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft and OpenAI were sued on Tuesday over Lawsuit that they misused the work of nonfiction writers to train the AI models that underlie services like OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, Western media reported.
According to media reports, OpenAI had copied tens of thousands of nonfiction books without approval to teach its models to reply to human text prompts, said Julian Sancton, who is also leading the proposed class action filed in the court.
The claim is one of several that have been brought by several groups of copyright owners, including authors George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, and Jonathan Franzen, against OpenAI and other tech firms over the misuse of their work to train Artificial Intelligence systems. The firms have rejected the allegations.
Microsoft, OpenAI Hit with New Author Copyright Lawsuit Over Artificial Intelligence Training
Sancton’s complaint is the first author claim against OpenAI and Microsoft. The firm has invested billions of dollars in the AI startup and integrated OpenAI’s systems into its many products.
Representatives for Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately reply to requests for remarks on the Tuesday claim.
“While Microsoft and OpenAI deny to pay nonfiction authors, their Artificial Intelligence platform is worth a fortune,” Sancton’s attorney Justin Nelson stated. “The foundation of OpenAI is nothing less than the widespread theft of copyrighted works.”
Sancton’s claim said that OpenAI copied books, including his “Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night” to train its models.
Sancton pleaded the court for an unnamed amount of monetary damages and a court order to stop the alleged violation.
