George R.R. Martin, John Grisham and other writers sue over ChatGPT

[dolcevita]

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is facing a lawsuit from bestselling writers including George R.R. Martin, John Grisham and Elin Hilderbrand that claims the company fed their books into its "large language models" allegedly violating their copyrights and engaging in "systematic theft on a mass scale."

[nytimes.com...]

www.nytimes.com Franzen, Grisham and Other Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI The suit, filed with the Authors Guild, accuses the A.I. company of infringing on authors' copyrights, claiming it used their books to train its ChatGPT chatbot.

[engine]

This had to happen at some point, and i'm surprised it's not happened earlier. They must have solid evidence to bring this lawsuit.

Every developer of an LLM is at risk of this action, and the outcome will be watched very closely.

[Mark_A]

Same deal for all individuals publishing websites, first Google et al, use cache and edit their content, now LLMs also .. no Union of webmasters to take a stand though, at least these authors have the backing to have a go. Evidence is simple, just ask the LLM what it knows about the book :)

[londrum]

Maybe George RR Martin could use AI to finish writing game of thrones. We're all going to be 80 by the time he finishes

[engine]

FYI, here's an earlier story from July this year "Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta" [bbc.co.uk...]

www.bbc.co.uk Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta The US comedian joins two other authors who claim their copyright was infringed to train AI systems.

[tangor]

Copyright law needs to be revisited world wide in the wake of this AI LLM activity.

G even announced (recently) that gmail and docs was folded into Bard. Where does the theft and invasion of property rights start and stop?