More Writers Sue ChatGPT Maker OpenAI for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training

A group of US authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, have sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program of exploiting their work to train its popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT. Chabon, playwright David Henry Hwang, and authors Matthew Klam, Rachel Louise Snyder, and Ayelet Waldman said in a Friday complaint that OpenAI used their work without permission to train ChatGPT to respond to human text prompts.

Chabon's team addressed questions regarding the case to the writers' attorneys. On Monday, the attorneys and OpenAI representatives did not immediately reply to demands for comment. At least the third planned copyright-infringement class action launched by writers against Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Copyright holders have also sued companies like as Microsoft, Meta Platforms, and Stability AI for using their work in AI training.

According to OpenAI and other firms, AI training makes acceptable use of copyrighted content gathered from the internet.

ChatGPT was the fastest-growing consumer app in history early this year, with 100 million monthly active users in January before being surpassed by Meta's Threads app. According to the latest San Francisco complaint, works like as books, plays, and essays are especially helpful for ChatGPT training because they are the "best examples of high-quality, long-form writing."

The writers claimed that their writing was improperly included in ChatGPT's training dataset, claiming that the system can accurately summarize their works and create language that matches their styles. 

The complaint sought unspecified monetary damages as well as an injunction against OpenAI's "unlawful and unfair business practices." 

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