According to Reuters earlier, another group of writers is suing OpenAI, accusing the company of illegally using their works to train its AIChatGPT chatbot. In the lawsuit filed on Friday, Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, Rachel Louise Snyder and Ayelet Waldman claimed that OpenAI derived benefits and profits from the "unauthorized and illegal use" of their copyrighted content.
The lawsuit is seeking class action status and asks for ChatGPT’s ability to summarize and analyze content written by authors, noting that this would “only be possible” if OpenAI trained its GPT large language model on their work. It added that the outputs were in fact "derivative" works that infringed its copyright.
“OpenAI’s copyright infringement was intentional, willful, and showed callous disregard for the rights of Plaintiffs and Class Members,” the lawsuit states. “OpenAI knew at all relevant times that the datasets it used to train the GPT model contained copyrighted material and acted in violation of the terms of use of those materials.”
TA GPH12Chabon, the author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" and other books, is one of more than 10,000 authors who signed an open letter calling on OpenAI, Meta, Google and other companies to "get consent, credit, and fair compensation" when using literary works for the training of artificial intelligence models.This is just the latest group of authors to take legal action over OpenAI training data. In July, writer and comedian Sarah Silverman filed a lawsuit along with writers Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, accusing OpenAI and Meta of copyright infringement. In June, writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad sued OpenAI on similar grounds.
Additionally, the recent lawsuit asks the court to prevent OpenAI from engaging in “illegal and unfair business practices” while awarding the authors damages and other penalties related to copyright infringement.