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Two Authors Sue OpenAI with Allegations of Copyright Infringement
The world of generative AI has now hit the court rooms. In this post I cover the broad strokes of the potentially influential lawsuit.
In a San Francisco federal court on Wednesday June 28, 2023, two U.S. authors filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company unlawfully utilized their works to train its popular generative artificial intelligence system, ChatGPT.
Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, whose attorney filed the class action lawsuit, claimed that ChatGPT extracted data from thousands of books without obtaining proper authorization, thereby violating their copyrights.
The suit named out numerous legal disputes have arisen concerning the usage of materials for training advanced AI systems. Plaintiffs have included owners of source code against OpenAI and Microsoft’s GitHub, as well as visual artists against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. The targeted defendants in these lawsuits have argued that their systems fall under fair use of copyrighted work.
ChatGPT, which interacts with users through text prompts in a conversational manner, experienced unprecedented growth earlier this year, becoming the fastest-growing consumer application in history. It amassed 100 million active users within two months of its launch in January. Like other…
