John Grisham, George RR Martin, other top US authors sue OpenAI over copyrights
OpenAI in Manhattan federal court on behalf of prominent writers including John Grisham, Jonathan UFranzen, George Saunders, Jodi Picoult and «Game of Thrones» novelist George RR Martin, accusing the company of unlawfully training its popular artificial-intelligence based chatbot ChatGPT on their work.
The proposed class-action lawsuit filed late on Tuesday by the Authors Guild joins several others from writers, source-code owners and visual artists against generative AI providers. In addition to Microsoft-backed OpenAI, similar lawsuits are pending against Meta Platforms and Stability AI over the data used to train their AI systems.
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Digital Marketing and AnalyticsVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Digital TransformationVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Digital MarketingVisit Other authors involved in the latest lawsuit include «The Lincoln Lawyer» writer Michael Connelly and lawyer-novelists David Baldacci and Scott Turow.
OpenAI and other AI defendants have said their use of training data scraped from the internet qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
An OpenAI spokesperson said on Wednesday that the company respects authors' rights and is «having productive conversations with many creators around the world, including the Authors Guild.»
Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger said in a statement on Wednesday that authors «must have the ability to control if and how their works are used by generative AI» in order to «preserve our literature.»
The Authors Guild's lawsuit claims that the datasets used to train OpenAI's large
