The Union Authors Guild, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, Michael Connelly, Jodi Picoult and a group of other famous fiction writers filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAIclaiming that their technology is infringing on their works.
It’s the latest lawsuit to challenge AI’s use of copyrighted works as “training data” for its system.
In his complaint, The authors claim that OpenAI copied their works “wholesale, without permission or compensation”. The plaintiffs maintain that the company introduced its work into large language models, “algorithms designed to generate human-like text responses to user prompts and queries.”
“Generative AI is a vast new field for the exploitation of content providers that Silicon Valley has long been doing. Authors should have the right to decide when their works are used to “train” AI. If they choose to participate, they should be adequately compensated,” author Jonathan Franzen said in a statement. Read the complaint.
Other plaintiffs in the case include David Baldacci, Mary Bly, Sylvia Day, Elin Hilderbrand, Christina Baker Kline, Maya Shanbhag Lang, Victor LaValle, Douglas Preston, Roxana Robinson, George Saunders, Scott Turow, and Rachel Vail.
What writers are looking for with a complaint against OpenAI
The lawsuit seeks class certification, a court order prohibiting his works from being used in large language models without permission, unspecified actual damages, and, in the alternative, statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work.
The litigation is just the latest filed by content creators about AI. In July, Sarah Silverman and two other authors sued OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement. Barry Diller has said it is also organizing publishers for a class-action lawsuit.
In a statement, Terrence Hart, general counsel for the Association of American Publishers, said of the latest litigation: “We agree that the unauthorized use of literary works by AI developers presents serious legal questions that cannot be dismissed simply by claims that the technology It’s ‘innovative.’ Innovative for whom? At what cost? Under what rules? “We will follow the demand closely.”
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