While OpenAI's personnel struggle has not yet come to an end, the company has encountered another legal dispute. On Tuesday Eastern Time, a number of writers filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI in the Manhattan Federal Court, accusing the two companies of
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The novelist groups have filed several lawsuits against several technology companies, including OpenAI, accusing the companies of misusing their works to train artificial intelligence systems. But both Microsoft and OpenAI have denied the accusations.
Julian Sancton, the author and editor of The Hollywood Reporter who leads the class action lawsuit, said OpenAI copied tens of thousands of nonfiction books without permission to train its large language models to respond to human text prompts.
With the rise of artificial intelligence craze, artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI have faced related copyright prosecutions. However, this Thornton lawsuit is the first time that both Microsoft and OpenAI have been included in the defendant dock. Previously, Microsoft has invested tens of billions of dollars in OpenAI and integrated OpenAI's systems into its own products.
Thornton's lawsuit claims that OpenAI copied numerous non-fiction books to train its GPT large-scale language model, and that Microsoft has been "deeply involved" in the training and development of these models and is responsible for copyright infringement.
Thornton's attorney, Justin Nelson, said in a statement: "Although OpenAI and Microsoft refuse to pay non-fiction writers, their artificial intelligence platforms have made huge profits...OpenAI is based on rampant plagiarism of copyrighted works."
Thornton asked the court to order OpenAI and Microsoft to compensate them for monetary damages and for an order to stop the alleged infringement.