Here comes another major lawsuit over generative AI and copyright, with OpenAI as the target. This class action comes courtesy of the Authors Guild, with a starry list of names among the plaintiffs: George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham…these are the big guns.
As with previous suits in this vein, the core issue is Big AI allegedly training its systems on pirated, copyrighted material. The filing accuses OpenAI of evading “the Copyright Act altogether to publish their lucrative commercial endeavor, taking whatever datasets of relatively recent books they could get their hands on without authorization.”
